Emily Temple is the author of The Lightness (2020), which was a Belletrist Book Club Pick and an Amazon Editors' Pick. Her short fiction has appeared in Colorado Review, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, Indiana Review, Fairy Tale Review, No Tokens, and elsewhere, and her story "Out, Out" won the 2022 Calvino Prize. She is the Managing Editor at Literary Hub, and lives in Central New York with her husband and daughter.