About
Emily Grandy is an award-winning novelist and editor based in the Midwest. She writes well-researched literary fiction and nonfiction with an ecological focus. Her writing is a celebration of and an invitation to reconnect with the more-than-human world.
Her debut novel, Michikusa House, was awarded the Landmark Prize, the Nautilus Book Award, and was longlisted for the Edna Ferber Book Award. Her second novel, Cupido Cupido, was the winner the Sowell Emerging Writer’s Prize was a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize. Her other writing has appeared in both academic and literary journals, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is also the recipient of a Spring Creek Project residency.
Before she became a biomedical editor, Emily did clinical research for a leading academic medical center in Cleveland, Ohio. As a former scientist, Emily’s writing aims to communicate science-based knowledge through storytelling. As an artist and environmental advocate, she hopes to help heal our relationship with the more-than-human world by drawing attention to wildlife everywhere—in both urban and rural settings.
She has lived in many places, both in the U.S. and abroad, but always gravitates back to the Midwest and its Great Lakes. She currently calls Milwaukee, Wisconsin home.
“We already have plenty of eyes trained on what’s broken. Among those shards, I seek out beauty, grace, and give my thanks. This is my way of defending it.”
