Emily Nemens is an American writer, editor and illustrator. From April 2018 to March 2021 she served as the editor of '' The Paris Review''.

Life and education

Born in

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, Nemens studied art history and studio art at Brown University. At

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she received a degree in creative writing.

Career

Nemens is an alumna of the Kerouac Project writing residency in Orlando, Florida, where she completed a short-story collection called “Scrub.” Nemens worked as an editor at the Center for Architecture and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In Louisiana, she worked at '' The Southern Review'' and became its co-editor. In April 2018, then still widely unknown in the New York literary scene, she was appointed editor of '' The Paris Review'' by a five-person committee composed of Susannah Hunnewell, Akash Shah, Jeanne McCulloch, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Mona Simpson. She succeeded Lorin Stein, who had resigned after allegations of sexual harassment. She was the second woman to lead the ''Review'' (after Brigid Hughes, who eschewed the official "editor" title out of respect for her predecessor, and the journal's founder, the late George Plimpton). In March 2021, she wrote that she was leaving the magazine to write her next book.

Work

Nemens has published poetry, fiction and essays in '' n+1'', '' Esquire'' and '' The Gettysburg Review''. As an illustrator, she has obtained a large following for her watercolor portraits of female politicians on Tumblr. Nemens published her debut novel, '' The Cactus League'', in 2020.

External links

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Nemens's illustrations
on Tumblr

References

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