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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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poetry

September 2011

Sleepwalking through the Mekong

Michael Earl Craig

poetry

September 2011

I have my hands out in front of me. I’m lightly patting down everything I come across. I somehow...

feature

August 2016

The Place of the Bridge

Jennifer Kabat

feature

August 2016

I.   Look up. A woman tumbles from the sky, her dress billowing around her like a parachute as...

fiction

August 2017

Lengths

Matthew Perkins

fiction

August 2017

1   I sat at the kitchen table while Valentine prepared cups of flowery, smoky loose leaf tea. Antoine...

 

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