Emily Choate

Emily Choate's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Florida Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Chapter 16, Late Night Library and Yemassee. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, belongs to New Orleans's Peauxdunque Writers Alliance and was a runner-up for the 2014 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Competition for short fiction. She lives in Nashville, TN, where she's working on a novel.
Reading List
Eufaula
My stepfather Des got famous, eventually. Fame of a particular stripe—for writing a handful of the most soul-throttling country songs of the seventies and eighties, for a drinking habit so dedicated that it verged on religious solemnity, and for the …