Grace Place, 2nd Floor
(637 S. Dearborn St.)
Saturday 9/12 – 1pm

Emily Nemens is the author of the novels Clutch (Tin House/Zando, 2026), and The Cactus League (FSG, 2020), both of which were The New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice selections. Her stories and essays have appeared in BOMB, Story, Zyzzyva, n+1, and elsewhere; her illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker and in collaboration with Harvey Pekar. Nemens spent over a decade editing literary quarterlies, including leading the Paris Review and serving as coeditor and prose editor of the Southern Review. She teaches in the MFA program at Bennington College and lives in central New Jersey with her husband and dog.