Emerson Whitney

Emerson Whitney is a writer and a professor. Their book Heaven , McSweeney's 2020, was named a 'best book' by the AV Club , PAPER , Literary Hub , Refinery29 , Ms. Magazine , Chicago Review of Books , the Observer , and the Seattle Times . Heaven was also awarded a Kirkus star and was written about by nonfiction editor at Kirkus , Eric Liebetrau, in a piece called " Queer Memoir Old and New " as a profile of Emerson and Heaven is compared to Alice B. Toklas' by Gertrude Stein. Heaven also won...See more

Emerson Whitney is a writer and a professor. Their book Heaven , McSweeney's 2020, was named a 'best book' by the AV Club , PAPER , Literary Hub , Refinery29 , Ms. Magazine , Chicago Review of Books , the Observer , and the Seattle Times . Heaven was also awarded a Kirkus star and was written about by nonfiction editor at Kirkus , Eric Liebetrau, in a piece called " Queer Memoir Old and New " as a profile of Emerson and Heaven is compared to Alice B. Toklas' by Gertrude Stein. Heaven also won a silver medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards and continues to garner praise. Emerson was named a 2020 Now List awardee in literature alongside Ocean Vuong and Danez Smith by Them magazine. Emerson's writing has appeared in The New Yorker , Los Angeles Review of Books , The Believer , Paris Review and elsewhere. See less