Emily Nason

Emily Nason is from Columbia, South Carolina, and has an MFA in poetry from the University of Virginia. Her poetry appears in the Kenyon Review, the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, and elsewhere.

Reading List

Sertraline

Emily Nason  | 
Issue 71.1 Fall 2022

I buy the dog a ball that lights. Sometimes she likes to chase after twilight. I cannot see her on these after-dark runs. Just a loping, floating egg, iridescent. To her, I have commitment issues. And sure. She isn’t wrong. I give and take, throw and receive. As an experiment, I use a […]

Oomancy

Emily Nason  | 
Issue 71.1 Fall 2022

My KitchenAid will outlive me and every egg rattling around inside me, but I still try to love it and use it often. I mix just long enough to combine. I lick the flat beater clean. Today’s menu: apple coffee cake. Pippin peels pushed to the trash, the browning innards folded into batter. S […]