Emory Walton was born in 1985 in Mobile, Alabama, and grew up along the Gulf Coast. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the MFA program at the University of Florida, Walton has worked as a textile archivist and museum registrar in Greensboro, North Carolina. Their stories and essays have appeared in journals such as The Southern Review, Oxford American, and Ecotone, and a debut story collection was shortlisted for regional prizes. Walton teaches creative writing at a community college in Athens, Georgia, where they live with a partner and an elderly greyhound.
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