Emily W. Pease received an MFA at Warren Wilson College in 2000. She has published short stories in Witness, Missouri Review, Shenandoah, Georgia Review, Crazyhorse, Narrative, and Alaska Quarterly Review. Her story “Tad Lincoln’s Ladder of Dreams” won the Editor’s Prize in Fiction at the Missouri Review in 1999. She later won the Bevel Summers Prize at Shenandoah in 2014 and the Crazyshorts! Prize at Crazyhorse in 2015. In 2018, her story “The After Life” was named one of the top five Narrative Stories of the Week. Most recently, her collection, Let Me Out Here, won the inaugural C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize at Hub City Press. After a long career of teaching writing at the College of William and Mary, she has taught writing in the Virginia correctional system as well as with the Armed Services Arts Partnership.
Mar/Apr 2019
Ecstasy
It was a confluence of events, a torrent, a river: small tragedies, one after another, starting when Gina lost her position at the veterinarian, followed by her subsequent move home, […]