Emma Copley Eisenberg
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Emma Copley Eisenberg is the author of the nationally bestselling debut novel Housemates (Hogarth, 2024), praised as “emotionally rich and quietly thought-provoking” by Kirkus in a starred review. Her first book of narrative nonfiction is The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia (Hachette Books, 2020) which was named a New York Times Notable Book and Editor’s Choice of 2020 as well as nominated for an Edgar Award, a Lambda Literary Award, and an Anthony Bouchercon Award among other honors.
Her work has appeared in The New York Times, McSweeney’s, Granta, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Tin House, Esquire, Guernica, The Washington Post Magazine, and others. She has received fellowships, grants and residencies from Yaddo, Bread Loaf, the Tin House Summer Workshop, the Millay Colony, Jentel Foundation, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and the Elizabeth George Foundation.
Eisenberg has taught creative writing at Wesleyan University, Bryn Mawr College, Temple University, and the University of Virginia, where she received her MFA in fiction and was a Henry Hoyns/Poe Faulkner fellow. Raised in New York City, she lives in Philadelphia, where she co-founded Blue Stoop, a community hub for the literary arts.
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