Emily Carter

Emily Carter (born December 1960 in New York City) is an American writer. She has been married to ex-punk rock guitarist (Christian Death, The Joneses, The Mau-Mau's) Johnnie Sage Ammentorp since 1999. They divide their time between New Haven, CT and New York City.

High School: Robert Louis Stevenson School for Gifted Underachievers. College: New York University.

Her work appeared in The New Yorker, Story, Gathering of the Tribes, Between C & D, Artforum, Open City, Great River Review, and Poz.

• 1996 McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowship for Writers Grant
• 1998 The Loft Literary Center Grant
• 2001 Whiting Award for Fiction

Books

• Glory Goes and Gets Some. Coffee House Press. 2000. ISBN 978-1-56689-101-1. 
  • "Parachute Silk", Originally published in The New Yorker, July 27, 1992
  • "Bad Boy Walking", Originally published in The New Yorker, February 14, 1994
  • "WLUV", Reprinted in The Barcelona Review, July–August 2003

Anthologies

• Garrison Keillor, Katrina Kenison, eds. (1998). "Glory Goes and Gets Some". The Best American Short Stories. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-395-87514-8.  CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)