Emily Nelson

Editor at CutBank | Blogger at The Rumpus | Contributor, Drizzle Review and half&half.com

United States

I am a Portland-based writer, editor, and freelancer with a passion for history, theory, and small presses. Currently, I am the fiction editor for CutBank Literary Magazine at the University of Montana, where I am completing an MFA in creative writing. I managed the "Notable Portland" column for The Rumpus from 2019-2020, am a frequent contributor at Drizzle Review and half&half.com, and serve as a staff reader for Emerson College's Ploughshares Magazine and Literary Orphans online. Additionally, I was an Editorial Intern with Tin House Books from 2018-2019 and completed a two-year tenure as senior co-editor and publisher of University of Portland's Writers Magazine in 2019. I am an experienced and passionate editor and copywriter with a desire to continually expand my professional horizons and stretch the bounds of rhetoric. I look forward to writing with you!

Portfolio
word west revue
03/01/2023
the lifers (fiction)

When his wife shoots the neighbor's sheep he thinks "alright, I guess there's something wrong."

half&half (via issuu)
03/07/2018
Interview: Chastity Belt

(pp. 12-17) An interview with Seattle's Chastity Belt for half&half's "Women in Music" Issue

Halfnhalf
05/17/2018
Interview: HINDS

(pp.12-17) An interview with the Spanish Indie band HINDS on their US tour, Summer 2018