Emily Nemens
Emily Nemens was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. She moved to points east-- Providence to attend Brown University (c/o 2005, art history and visual arts), Washington, DC to work at the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art, and Madrid to study Spanish art and architecture--before settling in Brooklyn to work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, do graphic design for nonprofit organizations, paint, play her saxophone, and write.
She recently completed her first novel, Blue-eyed Apples. In the three years she's been working on it, she also wrote, illustrated, and self-published a graphic novel about the 2004 Madrid train bombings (online at www.nemens.com/madrid_comic.html), edited the sports section for Brown's bi-weekly news magazine, edited a book for the Education department of Metropolitan Museum ("Painting Words, Sculpting Language: Creative Writing Workshops at the Metropolitan," published 2007), was selected to compete in the L Magazine's 2007 Literary Upstart Competition, and wrote for Outside's Go Magazine.
Boys of Summer
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007If things had gone according to The Plan, and they had followed the blue-pen indicated route, they would have driven north first, through New Hampshire to Montreal. If things had gone right, nothing would have happened in the game except nine innings, seven strikeouts, and a triple. Five runs would have scored along the way, divided four-one between Montreal and Cincinnati. They would have slept for three hours in the car in Quebec, on the shoulder of a side road, synchronizing their cell phone alarms to wake them up at 3:47 A.M. They would have bought two jumbo cups of coffee that had been slowing burning from 4 in the afternoon until 4 in the morning, slugging them with pre-packaged …
