Emily James

We Left

Today we left.   We pulled our favorite shirts and headscarves and underpants with a hole in the seam and emptied our cabinets room by room into bags...
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Emily James

Emily James is a teacher and writer in NYC. She’s the CNF Editor of Porcupine Literary and the Submissions Editor at Pidgeonholes. Her recent work can be found/is forthcoming in Guernica, Jellyfish Review, River Teeth, CHEAP POP, Hippocampus, the Atticus Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2019 Bechtel Prize from Teachers and Writers' Magazine. You can find her online at www.emilysarahjames.com and tweet her @missg3rd.