Emma Binder received their MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and they were the 2020–21 Hoffman-Halls Emerging Artist Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. In 2022, they received the Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction and the Tupelo Press Snowbound Chapbook Award. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pleiades, Gulf Coast, Narrative, The Texas Review, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. Originally from Wisconsin, Binder lives in Western Massachusetts, where they are working on a collection of short stories about queerness, rural life, and survival.
Fiction
Summer 2023
Robber’s Lake
Genius has this idea of fabricating his own diving bell so he can walk on the bottom of Robber’s Lake. He bear-hugs a five-gallon water jug from his dad’s storm […]