Emily Lowe is a writer, editor and professor of creative writing at Central Connecticut State University. She is at work on a novel about obsession and a memoir charting the landscape of ecological and familial grief.

She currently serves as an editor for serialized literary magazine The Rejoinder and worked for two years as fiction editor for the esteemed literary magazine Ecotone which received the AWP Small Press Publishing Award during her tenure.

Her prose and poetry have appeared in Off Assignment, Chicago Review, River Teeth, and elsewhere. She has received support from the Vermont Studio Center, Tin House Writers’ Workshop, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the North Carolina Writers Network.

She holds an M.F.A in Nonfiction from the University of North Carolina Wilmington where she was the 2019-2020 Philip Gerard Fellow. She now lives between Connecticut and Brooklyn where she co-hosts The Cusp, an astrologically-influenced reading series in Crown Heights.