Emily Rems is a feminist writer, editor, and podcaster who recently moved from New York to Kansas and was a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction. Best known as the former Editor-in-Chief of the young women’s pop culture magazine BUST and as host of BUST‘s podcast Poptarts, Emily was also a music and film commentator for New York’s NPR affiliate WNYC, and was the drummer for the feminist slut-rock band Royal Pink and the horror-punk band the Grasshoppers.

Her nonfiction writing has appeared in the anthologies Cassette from my Ex and Zinester’s Guide to NYC, as well as in Tom Tom Magazine, The Awl, Salon, Woman’s Day, The Longridge Review, and The Comics Journal. In 2014, she was a featured panelist at BinderCon, a symposium on women writers in N.Y.C., and was a speaker on The New School’s panel Music, Media, and The F Word. In 2015, she was invited to read her fiction as part of the Lamprophonic Emerging Writers’ Series in N.Y.C. In 2016 and 2017, she was a featured speaker at CUNY Kingsborough’s annual Diversity Symposium. In 2022, she was invited to read her form poetry as part of the Heavy Pages reading series at the Hekate Cafe in New York’s East Village. Now that she lives in Lawrence, Kansas, she is proud to have been invited three times to lecture on feminism, media, and her time at BUST at the University of Kansas.

Her short stories have been published in Lumen,  Prose ‘N Cons Mystery Magazine, Writing Raw,  PoemMemoirStory, The Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, The Borfski Press, Riverhawk, The SFWP Annual, and The Virginia Normal. Her poetry was published in The Write Bridge Journal. She is currently working on a novel and a screenplay.

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