Publications
Long For This World
Winner of the 2025 New Women's Voices Contest, Finishing Line Press
None of us is “long for this world,” the saying goes, so we may as well live with a due sense of wonder. In this collection of poems, to “long for this world” is to be open to the unexpected, like a turtle on a runway or angel on a beach at night.
Forthcoming in September, 2026.
Let Me Out Here
Winner of the C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize
“Let Me Out Here is an extraordinary collection of hidden moments and midnight roads, tales of characters held captive to their own stories, giving this collection a driving intimacy, a deft and crafted boldness. I’ll follow Pease wherever she’s going.”
– Amelia Gray
Poetry
Forthcoming
“Long For This World” | Finishing Line Press (September 2025)
Winner of the 2025 New Women's Voices Contest
2026
“Veer” | Red Wheelbarrow (Spring 2026)
Winner of the 2025 Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize
2025
“Lone Pony On the Last Farm In the City” | Asheville Poetry Review (2025-2026)
Winner of the 2025 William Matthews Poetry Prize
2023
“Wild” (print) | The Florida Review (Spring 2023)
2022
“Bertha” | Litmosphere: A Journal of Charlotte Lit (Summer 2022)
Semi-finalist, Lit/South Awards
“False Spring” (print) | Juniper (Fall 2022)
2021
“Color/Off Color” | Rattle
Artist’s choice, Ekphrastic Challenge (June 2021)
“Privation” | One (August 2021)
Short Fiction
“Tad Lincoln’s Ladder of Dreams” | Missouri Review
Winner of the Editor’s Prize
“Heed” | Georgia Review
“Ecstasy” | The Kenyon Review
“Church Retreat, 1975” | Shenandoah
“The After-life” | Narrative
“Foods of the Bible” | Crazyhorse
Winner of the Crazyshorts! Prize
“Submission” | Alaska Quarterly Review
“Business Man” | Shenandoah
“Mating Day” (print) | Witness
Nonfiction
Blogging | HuffPost
“7 Books About Conflicted Spirituality” | Electric Literature
“Hearing is the Last to Go” Audio recording
Produced by Hunter Pease at Red Amp Audio, Richmond, VA. (2018)
“My Asian-American Dream” Documentary
Directed by Truman Miles Ruberti
Produced by Emily W. Pease
In 2022, “My Asian-American Dream,” a documentary film focusing on the stories of three
Asian-Americans, premiered at the Ampersand Global Film Festival at William & Mary.
Filmed and edited by Truman Ruberti, a Korean-American former film student at William & Mary, and produced by Emily W. Pease, the film features interviews with Satoshi Ito, a Japanese American citizen who was confined to a concentration camp in Arkansas during WWII; Jenny Loveland, an artist and former Lieutenant-Colonel in the U.S. Air Force who was born in Tokyo to a Japanese mother and an American GI; and Hannah Aronson, an adoptee from China.
The film asks the question, “Are you a real American?” Each answers in a different way. What does it mean to be Asian? To be Asian in America?
With a musical score by Hunter Pease along with the skillful use of archival photos, the film is both lyrical and political.
Running time: 90 minutes.
Watch the documentary here
Block prints & political cartoons done by Emily