Research/Areas of Interest
Creative Nonfiction, Journalism, Nuclear Weapons History, Climate Change, Anthropocene, Environment, Mental Illness, Secrecy
Education
- BA, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, United States, 2010
- MFA, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States, 2016
Biography
Emily Strasser is the author of Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History (University Press of Kentucky, 2023), which was awarded the 2024 Reed Environmental Writing Award, the 2024 Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize. Emily's writing has appeared in Catapult, Ploughshares, Guernica, Colorado Review, The Bitter Southerner, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and Gulf Coast, among others. She was also the presenter of the 2020 BBC podcast "The Bomb." Her work has been honored by awards and fellowships including the Ploughshares Emerging Writer's Contest, an AWP Intro Award, the W.K. Rose Fellowship, the Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing, and grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Jerome Foundation, and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. She was a 2019 McKnight Writing Fellow.