Emily Rapp Black

Emily Rapp Black is the author of Poster Child: A Memoir; The Still Point of the Turning World, which was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the PEN/USA Award in Nonfiction; Sanctuary: A Memoir, which was a NYT editor's pick, and Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg. A former Fulbright scholar, she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship Award, the James A Michener Fellowship, and the Rona Jaffe Award, She is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California-Riverside, and is the mother of. two children: Ronan (2010-2013) and Charlotte, 7.