Emily Shetler’s work has appeared in the New York Times, the Capital Times, the Delacorte Review, and is forthcoming in the Hopkins Review. She is a 2023 Oregon Literary Fellow, Hoffman-Halls Emerging Artist Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and David Maraniss Fellow at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

At Madison, she received a campus-wide Teaching Assistant Award for Innovation in Teaching while completing her MFA in fiction and MA in journalism. She also led comics workshops as part of the Oakhill Prison Humanities Project. She is an English faculty member in corrections education at the Washington Corrections Center for Women.