Emily Fox Gordon

Essayist Emily Fox Gordon is the author of four books, Mockingbird Years: A Life in and Out of Therapy (a New York Times Notable Book) Are You Happy? A Childhood Remembered (a New York Times Editor’s Choice), It Will Come To Me (a novel) and Book of Days: Personal Essays (a New York Times Editor’s Choice). Her essays appear in Ploughshares, The New York Times, Boulevard, Salmagundi, The American Scholar and Southwest Review. Gordon has earned two Pushcart Prizes. Her work appears in Best American Essays 2014 and several editions of Anchor Essay Annual. Gordon was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2014. More recently, she received a Sidney Award from David Brooks and one of her essays was included in The Contemporary American Essay, edited by Phillip Lopate. She has taught classes on personal essays at Columbia, Rutgers, Rice University, the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston, the New School, and the University of Wyoming. For many years she has led workshops at Houston’s INPRINT program.