The Girl Who
Became a Rabbit
Winner of the 2023 New Southern Voices Poetry Prize
Hub City Press, September 2024
→The Girl Who Became a Rabbit is a book-length lyric, a dark, ruminative poem that pushes the limits of the prose-poetic form to explore how the body carries and shapes grief and what it means to tell a story.
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"Recursive, ambitious, strange and beautiful. I couldn't put it down. And, when I finished, I was changed." —MOLLY MCCULLY BROWN, author of Places I've Taken My Body
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​"Menzel is a marvelous writer and cataloguer of what connects and estranges us from our lives." —KELLY LINK, author of The Book of Love
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"A world that will inspire you to think playfully and with kindness and persistence and an openness to that which is not immediately beheld" —DARA BARROIS/DIXON, author of Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina
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​"In this astonishing debut, Menzel's images are both seductive and unflinching, electrifying and terrifying. Her lyric is the elixir I wish I could gift anyone who’s experienced girlhood." —DIANA KHOI NGUYEN, author of Root Fractures
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The Seventh Wave
Editing and Librarianship
The Seventh Wave is a literary organization and journal. Emilie serves as the Senior Poetry Editor and Librarian for The Seventh Wave. →Learn More
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The Gretel
Creative Resource
A visual library guide to gently haunted topics. Here, find the slightly wild and folkloric, the metamorphosed and transfigured, the world of slant angle and jagged line. →Learn More
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Creative Library Resources
Library Guide
Resources for creative writers on the tools available to them through public, academic, and online libraries that can help support their creative practices. →Learn More
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Creative Information Seeking
Library Science Research
Original research examining the information seeking behavior and visual studies engagement of creative writers. Completed for MSLS thesis. →Learn More
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