Emma Kaiser is an author, essayist, and teacher of creative writing.
She is the winner of the Norton Writers Prize, and her essays have been published in Riverteeth, The Normal School, Craft, Great River Review, Rock and Sling, and elsewhere. She is also the author of three children's nonfiction books. Emma is currently an MFA Candidate in Creative Nonfiction at the University of Minnesota where she also teaches creative writing.
Born and raised in America’s heartland, Emma’s writing is heavily influenced by rural spaces and landscapes—spaces that many are expected to depart from or have been forced to leave behind. Emma’s work explores what it means to return.
As an invasive species to northern Minnesota, Emma is at work on an essay collection that seeks to revisit the stories of rural spaces and consider how our roots shape not just our identity, but our relationship to the land and each other.
