Emily Cataneo is a graduate of North Carolina State University’s MFA, one of the country’s top-ranked graduate writing programs. Her short fiction has appeared in magazines such as Indiana Review, Nightmare, Lightspeed, cream city review, Smokelong Quarterly, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and was long listed for Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 and mentioned in Best SF&F 2018. Her nonfiction has appeared in venues such as The Guardian, The Baffler, Slate, the New York Times, Atlas Obscura, NPR, and the Boston Globe. She is originally from New England. Before founding Redbud, she taught adult writing courses at Boston Center for Adult Education; instructed undergraduates at NC State; taught middle and high schoolers at the Young Writers Workshop in Raleigh; and founded the Poor & Literate reading series in Berlin, Germany.

Some recent books that Emily loved include: Clare Beams’ We Show What We Have Learned and Other Stories, Patricia Lockwood’s Priestdaddy, Lauren Groff’s Florida, Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Kathryn Davis’ Versailles, Julia Phillips’ Disappearing Earth, Karen Russell’s Orange World.

Some of her all-time favorites are: anything by Kelly Link, Angela Carter, and Shirley Jackson, Elena Ferrante’s oeuvre, Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, and nineteenth-century Gothic classics by authors such as the Brontë sisters and Oscar Wilde.

Sign up for Emily’s classes if you are interested in: fantastical or weird fiction; historical fiction; short stories; novels; nonfiction; and literary fiction.