Description: Emily Rems is a feminist writer, editor, and podcaster who recently moved from New York to Kansas and was a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction. Best known as Editor-in-Chief of the young women’s pop culture magazine BUST and as host of BUST's podcast Poptarts, Emily was also a music and film commentator for New…
Emily Rems is a feminist writer, editor, and podcaster living in New York’s East Village and was a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction. Best known as managing editor of the young women’s pop culture magazine BUST and as host of BUST ‘s podcast Poptarts , Emily was also a music and film commentator for New York’s NPR affiliate WNYC , and was the drummer for the feminist slut-rock band Royal Pink and the horror-punk band the Grasshoppers .
Her nonfiction writing has appeared in the anthologies Cassette from my Ex and Zinester’s Guide to NYC , as well as in Tom Tom Magazine, The Awl , Salon , Woman’s Day , and The Longridge Review . In 2014, she was a featured panelist at BinderCon , a symposium on women writers in N.Y.C., and was a speaker on The New School’s panel Music, Media, and The F Word . In 2015, she was invited to read her fiction as part of the Lamprophonic Emerging Writers’ Series in N.Y.C. In 2016 and 2017, she was a featur
Her short stories have been published in Lumen , Prose ‘N Cons Mystery Magazine , Writing Raw, PoemMemoirStory , The Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly , The Borfski Press, Riverhawk , The SFWP Annual , and The Virginia Normal . She is currently working on a novel and a screenplay.