Emily Shetler’s work has appeared in the New York Times, the Hopkins Review, and the Delacorte Review, among others. She has received support from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Oregon Arts Commission, the Mineral School, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

At Madison, she completed her MFA in fiction and MA in journalism, and she received a campus-wide Teaching Assistant Award for Innovation in Teaching. She also led comics workshops as part of the Oakhill Prison Humanities Project. She teaches creative writing and English composition.