http://www.emilycataneo.com/contact daily 0.75 2016-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1475606194586-1FIIFEZI0BXU9GLLOQMC/image-asset.jpeg Contact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1475188415960-I5ZO7WLRJS0EMRJ3C0RF/IMG_0296.jpg Contact http://www.emilycataneo.com/about daily 1.0 2024-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1596056886140-78DE70HBOH9VX3250421/00100lrPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20200724162650415_COVER.jpg About http://www.emilycataneo.com/nonfiction daily 0.75 2024-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1622763437194-PZILNURO43NIXHNIX7PN/File_005.jpeg Non-fiction - Make it stand out Meet the North Carolina county that’s committed to chronicling their Black graves—an urgent and politically essential mission. Emily wrote about these efforts for The Assembly, April 14, 2021 and it was a Longreads pick that week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1615486062245-N37VRX4QTO22USKTRDTA/3000.jpg Non-fiction While the majority of fishing licenses still go to men, women play a pivotal role in the industry in shore-side roles—perhaps most famously in fishermen's wives groups, the most storied of which are located in Newport, Oregon and Gloucester, Massachusetts. Emily wrote about these women, their labor, and the history and superstitions of this storied industry for The Guardian, March 2021. (photographs by Amanda Lucier). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1529952287668-FN4W4847DDZXCHE90YNL/IMG_8133.jpg Non-fiction On the island of Jeju, South Korea, women have traditionally earned a living by free-diving into the ocean to gather abalone, sea cucumber, conches and other treasures from the ocean floor. Emily wrote about one of the youngest of these divers for Roads & Kingdoms, April 6, 2017; the article was listed on The Atlantic's The Week in Global-Affairs Writing, April 9, 2017. It will appear in part in Beside Media’s forthcoming book New Traditions, slated for publication in 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1529951950924-6O4DUXT1YUTBIMT2XDQT/IMG_3949.JPG Non-fiction How do millennial Catholic-reared women relate to their religion? Emily explored her own complicated relationship with Catholicism, magical thinking, anxiety, and ritual, as well as her relationship with her beloved Catholic grandmother, in this personal essay for Slate, June 25, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1529952160769-GNEV9JBZG2JFSY782P6G/IMG_3115.JPG Non-fiction How does Iceland's last tannery keep itself afloat? By turning discarded fish skins from the food industry into high-fashion leather. Emily visited the tannery on the Winter Solstice 2017, and wrote about it for Atlas Obscura, March 12, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1615486221558-IE0Q7VDLWLFQP8SA1UJJ/cisco-ghost-town-7-1536x1024.jpg Non-fiction Meet Eileen Muza, who bought a ghost town in the Utah desert on a whim and turned it into an arts space and residency. Emily wrote about Muza and her adventure for Roadtrippers, Jan. 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1604525009283-12X7X02AZK7RNKOHAO3R/Final-UndarkginsengTRart210-5-20-small-1480x833.jpg Non-fiction Ginseng is a spiky-leaf green plant that lurks in the forests of the Eastern United States. Through a supply chain quirk, for centuries, this plant is prized as a curative in East Asia, where specimens can fetch thousands of dollars. What happens when an unregulated forest botanical in a poverty-ridden, rural strip of the US, with a cult-like devotion and deep inroads in Appalachian culture, becomes invaluable half a world away? Emily wrote about it, as well as scientist and stakeholder attempts to stabilize the industry around this coveted plant, for Undark, Nov. 2020. This story was also reprinted in Salon and Wired. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1529952310464-ONXGBB6DWIN5C263ZZ1X/IMG_3317.JPG Non-fiction Mexico consumes more Coca-Cola than almost any other nation in the world. But what if there were an alternative? A couple in the Zapotec village of Santa Ana Zegache in Oaxaca, is making one. They call it Zega-Cola, and they hope it will keep jobs and money in their region. Emily visited them in March 2018 and wrote about it for NPR's food blog, The Salt, March 21, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1529952346520-XITR5686L2UUFQ26IJ3R/IMG_6923.jpg Non-fiction Irmela Mensah-Schramm is a 70-year-old German woman who has spent the last 30 years traveling around her country removing right-wing and racist graffiti, an activity that's often led her to run-ins with police and neo-Nazis. Emily spent a day with her in May 2016, and wrote about it for the Financial Times, August 20, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1529952194748-K457EWYAKK77PCRK77W6/IMG_2473.JPG Non-fiction Porcfest is an annual gathering of New Hampshire libertarians, billed as the libertarian Burning Man of the East, with bitcoin. In 2017, Emily attended this festival to meet the people who would transform her home state into a free-market utopia, and wrote about it for The Baffler, May 17, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1529952367819-UA8QNK4E46WCMOFMEEX7/IMG_0160.jpg Non-fiction Halé Sofia Schatz, a resident of Lexington, Massachusetts, has a slightly unusual hobby: raising goats in her suburban backyard. Emily visited her house and interviewed her about what it's like to be a goat mom in the suburbs, and wrote about it for the Boston Globe, August 7, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1588607759992-NZ1BRP0Z39JNKZIJHJ7C/IMG_3772.jpg Non-fiction The sanctuary movement is for undocumented immigrants who are out of other options: people who must either return to their home country, go into hiding, or seek sanctuary within the walls of a church. In 2020, Emily interviewed and wrote about several immigrants who had been living in churches in North Carolina for three years, for The Baffler, April 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1588607971011-Z2QE7JQR512Y0T2UAS61/IMG_3722.jpg Non-fiction Why do Germans love white asparagus so much? Emily wrote about this obsession, and her own role in it, for Food52, March 6, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1600989061856-QCBP5T4EZCMIEGOBAREG/IMG_0536.jpg Non-fiction What is Esperanto, and what role does it still play in modern Poland, where it was invented by an idealistic Jewish man more than a century ago? Emily wrote about her quest to find out in The Common, September 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1529952400370-UBS95DD98B95N4DQAWKX/IMG_7620.jpg Non-fiction Loren Coleman has spent his career hunting down cryptids: that is, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, the yeti, and other creatures unknown to science. He's one of the world's best-known cryptozoologists, and he runs the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine. Read Emily's account of his life and career in the Financial Times, March 10, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/a9519ca1-66d1-403f-8a5f-5de2f241f964/IMG_2821.jpg Non-fiction - Make it stand out What is really going on with Charlotte? Emily traveled to Hendersonville, NC in May 2024 to find out why Charlotte’s owners had stopped updating the public about the Internet’s most famous stingray—and the owners called the cops on her. Emily reported this story of lies, mystery, fish, animal welfare, marine biology, and small-town drama for The Assembly, May 28, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1617280235595-K0A5H7O7KL2VLPO0T617/File_001-2.jpeg Non-fiction Why is the Sonoran Desert increasingly deadly for undocumented migrants? Researchers are using ArcGIS, a mapping technology, to show that Border Patrol surveillance policies are increasingly shunting migrants into hotter, drier, and more treacherous corridors of the desert. Emily wrote about this humanitarian crisis for Undark, March 31, 2021, and it was reprinted in Salon and High Country News. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1529952216594-V9HZWMIVIDFZZDC46TZA/IMG_0627.jpg Non-fiction On the day Emily interviewed Irmela Mensah-Schramm for the Financial Times, Irmela, and Emily with her, nearly got arrested after an altercation with an angry right-winger on the outskirts of Berlin. Emily wrote about the experience in an essay for Off Assignment, April 12, 2018. http://www.emilycataneo.com/interviews-and-reviews-1 daily 0.75 2020-05-04 http://www.emilycataneo.com/books daily 0.75 2019-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1489880044647-5OFJH2N4CMH56ALCFLIQ/Speaking-to-Skull-Kings-ebook-423x628.jpg Books http://www.emilycataneo.com/new-page daily 0.75 2020-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1490493628908-EPBW2CH641N5HNWT33J4/image-asset.jpeg Short fiction The Lily Rose, The Dark, February 2017. Listen to the podcast here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1492634830989-5X7PTRHQNG8VI5T9S7JF/IMG_5649.JPG Short fiction Evangeline and the Forbidden Lighthouse, Interzone, May 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1490495496352-G2MOM47FRBD6OLSSB2IB/IMG_4881.jpg Short fiction The Emerald Coat and Other Wishes, Interfictions: A Journal of Interstitial Arts, May 2015. Long-listed for John Joseph Adams' Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016. Reprinted in Lightspeed in January 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1492635170134-OWPPQVR5H0Z5BQWYMWLM/image-asset.jpeg Short fiction Seven Steps to Beauty for a Girl Named Avarice, Nightmare, February 2018 . Read an interview about the story here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1490494788097-L0TPG3K33B19TINVFTSY/image-asset.jpeg Short fiction The Longest Night, Black Static, November 2019. Reprinted in The Dark, April 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1490478078000-3MWX1LGRTOOOHLI2HUIB/image-asset.jpeg Short fiction Not the Grand Duke's Dancer, The Dark, August 2014. Translated into Russian for Darker Magazine, July 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1490478398536-9WFQL57JTDLAUOUNLL75/image-asset.jpeg Short fiction The Enchantment, SmokeLong Quarterly, November 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1492635026487-YFGD1E6VX74WOVRKYFER/image-asset.jpeg Short fiction Glasswort, Ice, Lackington's, May 2017. Reprinted in Weird Dream Society, a speculative fiction charity anthology benefiting RAICES, May 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1588608426240-4G43G9ZJIYMTDF5T1TPW/image-asset.jpeg Short fiction Vainglory, Indiana Review, forthcoming. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1570540241147-6MMA15C1DGNSXGY4TIY6/1490495146705-YM662TE0UPL3321AHGER.jpeg Short fiction Wolf Diary, cream city review, spring/summer 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1490493852904-JPDBI71UOY9FVDRA216Z/image-asset.jpeg Short fiction https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1490478882625-JFYMTR8Y1X71VW4D1788/image-asset.jpeg Short fiction Bears at Parties, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, July 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1507903720335-OVQIOY6FP9UIBHNMCXJ2/IMG_6669.JPG Short fiction And the Village Breathes, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, October 2017 http://www.emilycataneo.com/redbud-writing-project daily 0.75 2020-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57e991d8e4fcb5aecad4a4a5/1603294470948-Q1FI82DEJH70WWH61XRM/untitled-drawing-1-2.png Redbud Writing Project