Emma Smith-Stevens is the author of a novel, The Australian (Dzanc). Her other writing has been published in BOMB Magazine, Literary Hub, Catapult, Conjunctions, Subtropics, the anthology Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture (Ed. Roxane Gay), Against Death: 35 Essays on Living (Ed. Elee Kraljii Gardiner), and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn, NY and is writing a memoir.