Emma Kaiser

Emma Kaiser is the winner of the Norton Writers Prize and Gesell Award for Nonfiction. Her work is featured in River Teeth, The Normal School, Allegory Ridge Nonfiction Anthology, Craft, Cutbank, Great River Review, Rock & Sling, and elsewhere, and she is the author of 12 children's nonfiction books. She holds a Creative Writing MFA from the University of Minnesota.

Mushroom Hunting: A Villanelle for the End of the World

Emma Kaiser October 15, 2025

1. I want a lover I can survive the end of the world with. And I mean that literally–when society and abstraction fail, I want someone who knows something about water and growth and soil, who knows how to live like an animal, according to the natural laws of the world, and not just the ones men make up for… Read more →