Emmett Knowlton
Baltimore, MD
Fiction
Emmett Knowlton is a writer, journalist, and educator from Montclair, New Jersey. He graduated with honors from Amherst College and received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Montana. His fiction appears or is forthcoming in Southern Humanities Review, MAYDAY Magazine, The Masters Review, and won the 2022 Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Prize. He has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and received the Peter Burnett Howe Prize for fiction. As a journalist, he won multiple Emmy Awards as an associate producer at HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, and has also published journalism in The New York Times and Business Insider, among other publications. He is currently the visiting writer at Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan.