Emily Rapp

Emily Rapp
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Birthday
July 12
Bio
Emily Rapp is the author of Poster Child: A Memoir, and The Still Point of the Turning World, which is forthcoming from Penguin Press in March 2013. She is also the author of many essays and stories in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Bellevue Literary Review, The Sun, Body + Soul, StoryQuarterly, The Texas Observer, and other publications. She is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design in Santa Fe, New Mexico and a faculty member with the University of California-Riverside Palm Desert MFA Program.

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JANUARY 22, 2012 10:12AM

The Rumpus

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Today an essay in the Rumpus, about the life-saving power of female friendship. Thanks to Gina Frangello for commissioning the piece.

http://therumpus.net/2012/01/transformation-and-transcendence-the-power-of-female-friendship/#more-95368


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My best friend and I had 13 years of friendship before it all went down in flames over her behavior leading up to her wedding. In many ways I miss our friendship, but as with most things in life it has to be two people connecting. Your piece reminds me there is still that in the world.