Emily Polson Assistant Editor Scribner
About the Editor
Emily Polson, Associate Editor, joined Scribner in spring 2021 by way of Simon & Schuster Audio, the David Black Literary Agency, and Book Riot. Recent and forthcoming projects include Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter, Worry by Alexandra Tanner, Quickly, While They Still Have Horses by Jan Carson, Helen of Troy, 1993: Poems by Maria Zoccola, and This Is Your Mother by Erika Simpson. She also works with novelist Ann-Helén Laestadius, journalist Simon Parkin, and editor-in-chief of Taco Bell Quarterly M. M. Carrigan. Emily is looking to acquire voice-driven literary fiction, memoir, cultural criticism, narrative nonfiction, and poetry that “speak into the silence” (Carmen Maria Machado) of the existing canon. Before working in publishing, Emily taught writing in a Mississippi prison and English in a Basque ikastola. She assists Colin Harrison and works on select projects with Kara Watson
