Emily Pease

Emily Pease has published short stories in Witness, The Missouri Review, Shenandoah and The Georgia Review. Her story "Tad Lincoln's Ladder of Dreams" won the Editor's Prize at the Missouri Review in 1999. For the past decade she has been at work on a novel about the last three weeks of Lincoln's life. She is also currently at work on a collection of stories, Love, After Nixon, and a collection of essays. She has been a finalist in the Mary McCarthy Prize, the Dana Awards, and the Faulkner-Wisdom Prize for a Novel-In-Progress. She teaches creative writing at the College of William and Mary. Her story "Church Retreat, 1975" is the winner of Shenandoah's 2014 Bevel Summers Contest for the short short story.