Emma Kingsley grew up near Lake Erie and studied urban policy at Ohio State before moving west. She spent a decade in Portland, Oregon working night shifts as a coffee roaster and days as a community arts coordinator, experiences that inform her character-driven contemporary fiction. Her short work has appeared in regional journals including Tin Roof Review and Rose City Quarterly. When not writing, she leads neighborhood cleanup days, experiments with small-batch syrups, and hikes Sauvie Island with a retired greyhound. She lives in a drafty bungalow stacked with paperbacks and houseplants.
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