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Emily Rapp Black
Emily Rapp Black is the author of the memoirs Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg (Notting Hill Editions), Sanctuary (Random House), The Still Point of the Turning World (Penguin), and Poster Child (Bloomsbury), as well as the nonfiction craft book I Would Die If I Were You: Notes on Art and Truth-Telling (Counterpoint). Her nonfiction has appeared in Vogue, the New York Times, LitHub, Die Zeit, The Times-London, The Sun, Time, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, O the Oprah Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times. She is a former Fulbright scholar and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. She has taught at the University of California-Riverside and the UCR School of Medicine. She holds a BA from Saint Olaf College, an MTS from Harvard University, and an MFA in Fiction and Poetry from the University of Texas.
