Emily Meg Weinstein was born in New York, New York. She spent her childhood in Queens and her adolescence in Long Island. After receiving a B.A. in 2001 from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, she lived the aughties in Brooklyn. In 2010, she went west. Emily lives, writes, teaches, and climbs in northern California.
Emily’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Salon, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, Okey-Panky/Electric Literature, The Huffington Post, The Morning News, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Identity Theory, Killing the Buddha, and other publications. She has been anthologized in the California Prose Directory: New Writing From the Golden State and YOU: An Anthology of Essays Devoted to the Second Person. In 2010 she was a Researcher-In-Residence in Freetown Christiania, in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2012 she received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholarship in nonfiction to attend the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Vermont. From 2011 to 2013 she was an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California. In 2016 she will be an artist in residence at Caldera.
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