About

Emily B. Cataneo is a writer and award-winning journalist. She started her career reporting full time on local issues for the Boston Globe and seven other newspapers in the Greater Boston area. Since becoming a freelancer, she has reported on stories on three different continents and around the United States, and her stories have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, NPR, Undark, Slate, Salon, Wired, The Smithsonian, The Financial Times, Atlas Obscura, The Baffler,  JSTOR Daily and Roads & Kingdoms. She loves writing about intriguing people and subcultures, books, feminism, the ocean, plants, history, and more.

Emily is also a fiction writer. Her short stories have appeared in magazines such as Indiana Review, cream city review, Lightspeed, Nightmare, SmokeLong Quarterly, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and The Dark. She’s drawn to lots of different kinds of fiction, but a perennial interest of hers is complicated, twisted, troubled, or strange female protagonists.

Emily is the co-founder of the Redbud Writing Project, an arts nonprofit in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she teaches classes on fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, and more.

Find her on Instagram @emily_cataneo.