Emily Choate

Emily Choate writes fiction-feisty southern stuff, mostly. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College's MFA Program in 2006 and has held a residency at Vermont Studio Center. She also spent an undergraduate year at Oxford's scruffy yet fabulous Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. She has taught writing and literature courses of various size and shape, held library jobs, and now serves as Hermes-of-all-trades for the Freelance Pantheon. When not waylaid by pushy new short stories, she's currently revising her novel. An incurable Tennessean, Emily lives on the wooded outskirts of Nashville. 

Emily Choate’s fiction appears in storySouth, Mississippi Review, Shenandoah, The Florida Review, Rappahannock Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. She writes reviews, features, and interviews for Chapter 16, and other nonfiction appears in Atticus Review, Still: the Journal, Longridge Review, and Nashville Scene, among others. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Emily holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and has been a Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee Writers Conference. She lives near Nashville, where she’s working on a novel.