Emily Nagin – Michigan Quarterly Review

Emily Nagin

Emily Nagin received her MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program in 2015. Her work has appeared in Uncommon Core Fiction Anthology, New Ohio Review, and the Main Street Rag, among other publications. In addition to blogging for MQR, she is a contributor at Fiction Writer's Review. She lives in Pittsburgh. Follow her on Twitter @EmilyNagin.

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On Writing Place: An Interview with Inez Tan

“When I teach, my analogy is that fiction is a huge tree while poetry is a bonsai. It’s immensely helpful to toggle between working on different scales. Fiction helps me infuse my poems with narrative. Poetry makes my fiction more deft, descriptive, and concise.”

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“When I teach, my analogy is that fiction is a huge tree while poetry is a bonsai. It’s immensely helpful to toggle between working on different scales. Fiction helps me infuse my poems with narrative. Poetry makes my fiction more deft, descriptive, and concise.”

Who Is Billie Nardozzi a.k.a (((Rachel)))?

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Pittsburgh’s self-styled Premier Poet answers the door in a shimmering, jewel-blue blouse, hair teased into a softer version of a mullet. He’s wearing understated make-up and a mild perfume, something between vanilla and baby powder. On his fingers, rings set with blue jewels catch the early evening light.

Who Is Billie Nardozzi a.k.a (((Rachel)))? Read More »

Pittsburgh’s self-styled Premier Poet answers the door in a shimmering, jewel-blue blouse, hair teased into a softer version of a mullet. He’s wearing understated make-up and a mild perfume, something between vanilla and baby powder. On his fingers, rings set with blue jewels catch the early evening light.

Writing My Way into Jewishness

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The thing about identity is, people are always trying to define who you are for you, to tell you what you mean. And we should be interrogating our positions in society, our privilege relative to our oppression, but we should also be skeptical of those who insist we are definitively one thing or another.

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The thing about identity is, people are always trying to define who you are for you, to tell you what you mean. And we should be interrogating our positions in society, our privilege relative to our oppression, but we should also be skeptical of those who insist we are definitively one thing or another.

Abject Horror: The Gratuitous Honesty of Hanya Yanagihara and Stephen King

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We don’t owe it to anyone to make our writing nice, or easy, or palatable. Maybe we should start asking ourselves who we’re protecting when we pan away, and why we’re protecting them.

Abject Horror: The Gratuitous Honesty of Hanya Yanagihara and Stephen King Read More »

We don’t owe it to anyone to make our writing nice, or easy, or palatable. Maybe we should start asking ourselves who we’re protecting when we pan away, and why we’re protecting them.

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