Emily Flouton's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Tin House, Publishers Weekly, The Massachusetts Review, Gay Magazine, Subtropics, Passages North, Quarterly West, DIAGRAM, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Forge, and other places. She won the 2020 Kurt Brown Prize for Fiction from AWP. Emily holds an MFA in creative writing from Portland State University, where she was awarded the Tom and Phyllis Burnam Fiction Scholarship, and a BA in English and Drama from Queen Mary College in London. Previously, Emily worked in theater, film, and television. Originally from New England, she lives in Brooklyn and teaches writing with Lighthouse Writers Workshop.

Emily is represented by Eleanor Jackson of Dunow, Carlson & Lerner.