About Emily Mathis
Writer of Essays & Creative Nonfiction.
Emily Mathis is a writer focusing primarily on essays and creative nonfiction.
In the past year her nonfiction has been a finalist for Fourth Genre’s Michael Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize, Sonora Review’s The Erotic contest, the Terry Tempest Williams Creative Nonfiction Prize, the Sixth Annual Sewanee Review Nonfiction contest, the 2024 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards, and Epiphany's Breakout! Prize (Prose 2024).
Her essays have recently appeared in, or are forthcoming in, Sonora Review, Hunger Mountain, Epiphany, Another Chicago Magazine, and others. She is revising a collection of essays and is seeking representation. She lives in North Carolina.
"There is a rhythm to letting go, a dance between holding on and stepping back, where memories waltz with the present, creating a space where the past and future can meet."
Quote from "Footwork", published in Hunger Mountain