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Emily Rapp Black
American Memoirist, Professor,
Editor at Lost Angeles Review of Books and
Guggenheim Fellow

About Emily

Emily Rapp Black is the author of Sanctuary: A Memoir (Random House, 2021), Frida Kahlo & My Left Leg (NY Review of Books, 2021), Poster Child: A Memoir (BloomsburyUSA) and The Still Point of the Turning World (Penguin Press). A New York Times bestseller and an Editor’s Pick and former Fulbright scholar, she was educated at Harvard University, Trinity College-Dublin, Saint Olaf College, and the University of Texas-Austin, where she was a James A. Michener Fellow. A Guggenheim Fellow, she has received awards and the fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Jentel Arts Foundation, the Corporation of Yaddo, the Fine Arts Work center, Fundacion Valparaiso, and Bucknell University. Her work has appeared in VOGUE, the New York Times, Die Zeit, the Times-London, Lenny Letter, The Sun, TIME, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, O the Oprah Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and other publications and anthologies.

She is currently Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California-Riverside, where she also teaches medical narratives in the School of Medicine. She is a member of the Inequities in Health Care Working Group and and architect of the Medical Narratives minor in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. She was recently named the nonfiction editor of The Los Angeles Review of Books. Her newest book explores art and disability through the life of Friday Kahlo from Nottinghill Editions/New York Review of Books. She is the mother of two children: Ronan (2010-2013), and Charlotte (age 6).

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