Emily W. Pease is the author of Let Me Out Here, out from Hub City Press in March 2019.

Emily W. Pease is the author of Let Me Out Here, the 2018 winner of the C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize at Hub City Press. Her stories have appeared in Witness, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, The Missouri Review, Crazyhorse (now Swamp Pink), Alaska Quarterly Review, Narrative Online, and Kenyon Review Online. An early story, “Tad Lincoln’s Ladder of Dreams,” won the Missouri Review Editor’s Prize in Fiction in 1999. After spending nearly a decade trying to work that story into a novel, she returned to short fiction. Her collection is, in part, a result of her re-dedication to that form.

Since the publication of Let Me Out Here, Emily has turned her focus to the practice of writing poetry. Her poems appear in One, Rattle (winner, June 2021 Ekphrastic Challenge), Litmosphere, Juniper, and (forthcoming) The Florida Review.