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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

March 2013

Fugitive

James Byrne

poetry

March 2013

I trace the stacked voices of shouters how they immingle fraternally on first hearing with the vaporous nick of...

poetry

June 2013

Major Organs

Melissa Lee-Houghton

poetry

June 2013

When they take my brain out of its casing it will be fluorescent and the mortuary assistant will have...

feature

July 2012

Run, Comrades, #YOLO! — Cursory Notes on Radical Hashtag Forms

Huw Lemmey

feature

July 2012

I’m not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each...

 

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