Emilie Menzel (Of Invocations, Fables, and Narrative Leaps as Neurodivergent Play)

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Read: "I Pull My Leaf Leg Stockings Off My Body" (The Boiler Journal)

Purchase: The Girl Who Became a Rabbit (HCP, 2024)

Emilie Menzel, writer and librarian of hybridities, is the author of the book-length lyric The Girl Who Became a Rabbit (Hub City Press, 2024). Their gently haunted writing features in Copper Nickel, Bennington Review, and The Offing, amongst others, and has garnered such honors as the New Southern Voices Poetry Prize, the Deborah Slosberg Memorial Award in Poetry, and the Cara Parravani Memorial Award in Fiction. Menzel holds an MFA from UMass Amherst and serves as a collections librarian at Duke University and creative resources librarian for Seventh Wave. Raised on Georgia summers, they live in Durham, North Carolina.

Recommended Reading:

The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley

"The War of Vaslav Ninjinsky" by Frank Bidart

My Life in the Nineties by Lyn Hejinian

Max Porter

Annie Dillard

Toni Morrison

Maggie Nelson

Bernadette Meyer

Sabrina Ora Mark

Lydia Davis