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Emily Wells

Emily Wells is a writer and editor living in Los Angeles, at work on a book about 1800's French hysteria and contemporary chronic illness. She has an MFA in creative writing from UC Riverside, and now teaches writing at UC Irvine.



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Angry Ballerinas

Essay

September 2019

Emily Wells

Essay

September 2019

Balanchine, the Wilis, and Collective Female Anger in Ballet   Growing up in ballet, I occasionally trained with a visiting instructor who had danced...

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fiction

January 2014

Leg over Leg

Ahmad Fāris al-Shidyāq

TR. Humphrey Davies

fiction

January 2014

First published in 1855, Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of ‘the Fāriyāq,’ alter ego of...

poetry

March 2013

The Humming Lady

James Byrne

poetry

March 2013

The humming lady arrives in a smiling orange smock and orders from the waiter a plate of overripe oranges,...

Art

July 2014

(holes)

Alice Hattrick

Kristina Buch

Art

July 2014

There are many ways to make sense of the world, through language, speech and text, but also the senses...

 

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