As a journalist, I write about outsiders—mostly immigrants, religious minorities, and children—and am interested in the ways that systemic forces impact the lives of everyday people. My investigative and longform reporting has been published in outlets including The Atlantic, Guernica, Harper’s, Ms., National Geographic, The New York Times, NPR, The Washington Post, and the Washington Post Magazine. As an essayist, I’m particularly interested in the ways we understand subjectivity, and the relationship between narrative and truth.

My work has received support from organizations including the Yale Writers’ Workshop, Tin House, Sewanee (where I was a Tennessee Williams scholar in non-fiction), Bread Loaf, and The International Women’s Media Foundation. I also have edited journalism, social media, and academic work for a range of organizations and companies.

I am represented by the fabulous Dorian Karchmar, a partner agent at William Morris Endeavor. I am at work on two projects: a memoir-in-essays and a reported work of nonfiction on Christianity in America.

I have a BA in anthropology from Harvard College and an M.Ed. in curriculum and instruction from the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. I live in the Santa Cruz Mountains, about an hour from San Francisco.

I can be reached at emilyfoxkaplan@gmail.com, or on Twitter at @emilyfoxkaplan.