Emily is an artist, writer, and lab rat based in the Chicagoland area. Her work is based on her passion for science and the melancholic nostalgia of grief. Ever the optimist, paintings in her series, Bright Grief, have earned 2nd-place prizes in back-to-back 2026 shows, “Home” and “Portrait”, at Water Street Studio Arts in Batavia, IL.

Her writing has been published in Issue VIII
(in)dehiscent in Mulberry Literary and in Pink Slip Issue 004: Sanctuary. She has also published her own poetry collection, The Natural History of Everything, which centers on ideas of grief, hope, and the end of the world.