About the Editor

Emily Polson, Editor, joined Scribner in spring 2021 by way of Simon & Schuster Audio, the David Black Literary Agency, and Book Riot. Recent projects include Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter, Worry by Alexandra Tanner, Helen of Troy, 1993 by Maria Zoccola, Punished by Ann-Helén Laestadius, and This Is Your Mother by Erika J. Simpson. Her other authors include Simon Parkin, Jan Carson, Diamond Forde, Maria Adelmann, Mick Carrigan, Fiona Warnick, and Erica Frederick. 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 creative writing in a Mississippi prison and English in a Basque ikastola.