In this class, Milwaukee Author: Emily Grandy, will teach you how to weave sensory detail and specificity into an existing piece of original fiction or narrative nonfiction to enhance your own distinctive style. 

$15

Emily Grandy is an award-winning novelist and editor based in the Midwest.

Before she became a biomedical editor, Emily did medical research for the Cleveland Clinic.

As a former scientist, Emily’s writing aims to communicate science-based knowledge through storytelling. As an artist and environmental advocate, she hopes to help heal our relationship with the more-than-human world. Her debut novel, Michikusa House, was awarded the Landmark Prize (Homebound Publications). Her second novel, Cupido Cupido, was a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for socially engaged fiction in 2023. Her other writing has appeared in both academic and literary journals and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

She prefers walking to driving, clouds over sun, and gardening to most any other activity, although yoga, cooking, birdwatching, hiking, wandering, and, of course, writing are also key elements of her daily routine, to which she is rigidly committed.

Emily has lived in many places, both in the U.S. and abroad, but always gravitates back to the Midwest and its Great Lakes. She currently calls Milwaukee, Wisconsin home.

Her newest book is: Michikusa House.

Blending flashbacks with a tender love story, Michikusa House is a work of literary fiction that draws on the author’s own experience of recovering from the most lethal of all psychiatric disorders. This award-winning debut takes a critical view of contemporary nutrition science and American food culture while also exploring the transformative power of illness.