Emily Nemens

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|birth_place=Seattle, Washington, U.S.

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Writer
editor
illustrator

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|nationality=American

|alma_mater=Brown University
Louisiana State University

|website={{URL|https://emilynemens.com}}

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Emily Nemens is an American writer, editor and illustrator. From April 2018 to March 2021 she served as the editor of The Paris Review.

Life and education

Born in Seattle, Nemens studied art history and studio art at Brown University. At Louisiana State University she received a degree in creative writing.{{cite news|last1=Alter|first1=Alexandra|last2=Ember|first2=Sydney|title=The Paris Review Names a New Editor: Emily Nemens of The Southern Review|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/business/media/paris-review-emily-nemens.html|accessdate=6 April 2018|work=The New York Times|date=5 April 2018}}

Career

Nemens is an alumna of the Kerouac Project writing residency in Orlando, Florida, where she completed a short-story collection called “Scrub.”{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/realestate/03habi.html|title=One Relationship, Times Two|last=Rosenblum|first=Constance|date=2010-10-01|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-02-12|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} Nemens worked as an editor at the Center for Architecture and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecut.com/2018/04/the-paris-review-has-finally-found-a-new-editor.html|title=The Paris Review Has Finally Found a New Editor|last=Silman|first=Anna|date=2018-04-05|website=The Cut|language=en|access-date=2019-02-12}} In Louisiana, she worked at The Southern Review and became its co-editor.

In April 2018, then still widely unknown in the New York literary scene, she was appointed editor of The Paris Review by a five-person committee composed of Susannah Hunnewell, Akash Shah, Jeanne McCulloch, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Mona Simpson.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/emily-nemens-new-editor-paris-review|title=The Paris Review Has Chosen Its Next Editor|website=Vogue|date=5 April 2018 |language=en|access-date=2019-02-12}} She succeeded Lorin Stein, who had resigned after allegations of sexual harassment. She was the second woman to lead the Review (after Brigid Hughes, who eschewed the official "editor" title out of respect for her predecessor, and the journal's founder, the late George Plimpton).{{Cite web|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/07/emily-nemens-the-paris-review-interview|title=Emily Nemens Has Big Plans for The Paris Review and She's Taking Submissions|last=Vail|first=H. W.|website=Vanities|date=10 July 2018 |language=en|access-date=2019-02-12}} In March 2021, she wrote that she was leaving the magazine to write her next book.{{Cite web|last=Nemens|first=Emily|date=2021-03-03|title=Letter from the Editor|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/03/03/letter-from-the-editor/|access-date=2021-03-06|website=The Paris Review|language=en}}