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Emily Stoddard

Emily Stoddard is a past recipient of The Kenyon Review Developmental Editing Fellowship for Emerging Writers in creative nonfiction, and leads workshops as an affiliate of Amherst Writers & Artists. Her work has appeared in Belt Magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, The Baltimore Review, Nimrod, Whitefish Review, and elsewhere. Her debut book of poetry, Divination with a Human Heart Attached (Game Over Books), was released in 2023.

Nonfiction

Winter 2024

Flight Risk

By Emily Stoddard

The truth is, I wanted it to be something that sounded complex, something that matched how I felt on the inside. “But I just don’t think we should rule out […]