Emily Luan
Emily Luan now (left) and as a student at Middlebury College (right)
NER intern Cristina Farfan ’21 talks to Emily Luan ’15, about choosing poetry and finding a place in the larger literary world. During her time at Middlebury College, Luan was an English major with a focus on Creative Writing and a minor in Chinese, and she worked for
NER in the summer of 2014.
Cristina Farfan: Where are you now, both geographically and professionally?
Emily Luan: I live in Brooklyn, New York, teaching undergraduate poetry at Rutgers-Newark from my apartment, writing reviews of upcoming poetry collections, and working in fundraising for small arts nonprofits. I’m also working toward completing my first full-length poetry manuscript.