Emily is a writer and bookmaker living in Detroit. She’s heavily guided by her work aboard expedition vessels as a naturalist throughout the polar regions, South Pacific, Europe and North America. Since retiring from shipboard life, Emily has focused on navigating her world as a woman, artist and mother. In recent years, she earned an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, founded the MacGriff Writing Studio and joined the MA/MFA Design for Climate Action faculty at the College for Creative Studies.

New Release: the catastrophe of after: a short-stay diary, Gnashing Teeth Publishing