Creative Writing Series: Emily Nemens

The UT Creative Writing Program is excited to present a reading by novelist Emily Nemens. The reading will take place Monday, October 19 at 7pm in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of John C. Hodges Library on the UT Campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Emily Nemens is the author of Clutch and The Cactus League, both of which were NYT Book Review Editor's Choice selections. Her recent story “Asymptotes” will appear in New Stories from the South 2026, and she won a 2026 Finalist Award from the NJ Arts Council. Nemens spent over a decade editing literary quarterlies, including leading the Paris Review and serving as coeditor and prose editor of the Southern Review. She teaches in the MFA program at Bennington College and lives in central New Jersey with her husband and dog.

Read an excerpt of Clutch here.