Emily Jane Young is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Word Portland. She is a  creative writing teacher and mentor in Portland, Maine. She studied writing at Stonecoast MFA and the University of Maine at Farmington. When she isn't writing, she's performing improv comedy as part of Turkey Club. Unless she's staying home indefinitely because there's a pandemic (currently).

some short fiction:
"Big Boy" in ​North by Northeast
"Selection from a Misunderstanding" and "Aoife" in Ungatherable Things
"Parasomnia" in Smokelong Quarterly
"The Umbrellas" in Be Wilder
"Trying to Find Love at the Asylum" in I Could Be Here Now
"Grumpert" in The Sandy River Review

some non-fiction:
"On Ecstatic Milk Enjoyment, Discomfort, and Not Pumping Gas in the Presence of Douglas W. Milliken's Corpse" in The Chart

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