Emily Giangiulio

Emily Giangiulio is a writer and educator from Philadelphia, currently living in Seattle as a second-year MFA candidate in prose at the University of Washington. She is the recipient of the Bentley MFA Award in Creative Writing for her fiction and the Dunn First-Year Teaching Award for her work as an instructor of composition and creative writing.

She graduated in 2020 from Bard College with a dual B.A. in Cultural Anthropology and Written Arts, where her long-form fiction received the Mary McCarthy Prize and her political ecology research the Franz Boas/Ruth Benedict Prize. Prior to graduate school, she worked in varying capacities at a literary journal, an NYC literary agency, and an old school Italian deli.

Her most recent short fiction can be found in Bennington Review and Hayden’s Ferry Review. She is currently writing a speculative eco-fiction novel.

Fields Of Interest

• Anthropology
• Creative Writing
• Ecocriticism
• English
• Environment
• Expository Writing
• Novel/Prose Fiction
• Rhetoric and Composition
• Science Fiction
• Writing Pedagogy

Education

• University of Washington - Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Creative Writing Sep 2021 - Jun 2023
• Bard College - Writtens Arts, Anthropology 2016 - 2020