Cai Emmons

Cai Emmons is the author of the novels His Mother’s Son (Harcourt), and The Stylist (HarperCollins). Her short work has appeared in Arts and Letters, Narrative Magazine, The Santa Monica Review, The New York Post, and Portland Monthly, among others, and she has a selection in Now Write: Writing Exercises from Today’s Best Writers and Teachers (Tarcher Publications).

Before turning to fiction, Emmons wrote for theater, film, and television. She holds degrees from Yale University, New York University, and the University of Oregon.  Since 2002 she has been teaching at the University of Oregon in the Creative Writing Program and the Cinema Studies Program.

Her most recently completed novel is called Weather Woman.

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