Writing A Novel that Challenges Gender Norms with Emme Lund

In this episode, host Landis Wade has a conversation with Emme Lund, author of “The Boy With a Bird in His Chest,” about writing a novel that challenges gender norms.

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Emme Lund is an author living and writing in Portland, OR. She has an MFA from Mills College. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, TIME Magazine, The Rumpus, Apt Magazine, and Paper Darts, among many other venues.

In 2016, Quiet Lightning Books published a limited run of her book, The Sacred Text of Rosa Who is Great, complete with art by Stella Peach, about which Andrew Sean Greer wrote, “I have been looking for this book for years! Against every modern trend: a brilliant, old-world, handmade piece of magic.”In 2019, she was awarded an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship in Fiction. She is represented by Cassie Mannes Murray at Howland Literary.