Emily H. Freeman

Emily H. Freeman is a writer of fiction and nonfiction living in Dillon, MT. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota, and has taught writing to students of all ages, in college classrooms, elementary schools, juvenile detention facilities, and the great outdoors. Emily’s work has appeared in various publications including the Best New American Voices anthology, Sierra Magazine, High Country News, and the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune. She has received grants from the Montana Arts Council, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Minnesota Jewish Arts Council, and has been awarded residencies at Dear Butte, the Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, and the Anderson Center at Tower View. 

 

Emily’s current project is a novel for young readers which explores issues of housing insecurity, land use, and the mutability of the built environment. The characters reside in a ghost-town-adjacent campground, where built structures are slowly collapsing, returning their materials to the earth. Trees cleave foundations, birds make homes in roofs, and the ephemerality of human engineering and enterprise is laid bare against a backdrop of a vast Western landscape. The location of the Taft-Nicholson Center, and the history of Lakeview, make it the ideal spot in which to complete this manuscript. 

 

When she’s not writing or teaching, Emily enjoys baking sourdough bread, running, and spending time with her husband and two sons.