EMMA FUCHS (rhymes with books) is a poet, printmaker and aspiring filmmaker. Emma has many homes but she currently lives in New York City, where she works in art galleries and dreams of endless summer. She is a poetry reader at TriQuarterly.
Emma graduated from Smith College in 2021 with a double major in Comparative World Literatures and French Studies, and a Poetry Concentration. As her senior capstone project, she wrote Self-portrait with Hands, an ekphrastic chapbook that now lives a recluse life in the library of the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center and on a few friends’ bookshelves.
Her writing and research obsessions center on spatiality / domesticity / intimacy / video art / & museums. Many of these passions were developed and deepened by her time spent studying abroad at the Sorbonne (Paris IV) and her time as a Research Fellow at the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute. As part of the 2020-21 Technophilia/Technophobia cohort, her project “Home Video & Video Homes: Curating & Documenting Domestic Spaces” explored the collapsed present of quarantine in her apartment through video art pitches.
Her literary experiences include working as: a children’s librarian, an editorial intern at Ladderbird Literary Agency, a poetry submission reader for the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, a four-time poetry mentor at the Vermont Young Writers’ Conference (formerly the Champlain College Young Writers’ Conference) and fiction teaching assistant to Calvin Walds at the Northfield Mount Hermon School.
Looking forward, Emma is intensely interested in film and/or publishing work. Her past experiences include selection for and participation in the Cannes International Film Festival “Three Days at Cannes” Student Accreditation Program (2019, 2022, 2023), and the 2019 Santa Barbara International Film Festival Film Studies Program. Spurred by her festival experiences, she spent Summer 2019 interning with the Austin Film Festival in Austin, TX, teaching claymation. Summer 2022 Emma attended Kino Guarimba, a filmmaking residency in southern Italy where she wrote and directed her first short film.
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