Parts of Emily Chammah can be found throughout the world, buried in sand. Locations worth noting: the sleepy dunes near Lake Michigan, the black beach beside the orange groves in Ras al-Bassit, the bed of the Nile, the high desert of the Trans-Pecos in Far West Texas. 

Emily is a writer, and an assistant editor at American Short Fiction, where she co-organizes The Insider Prize, a contest for incarcerated writers in Texas. She is the recipient of a 2018-2019 Fulbright Grant in Creative Writing to Jordan and the winner of the 2017 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. She works as Development Associate for Austin Bat Cave, a non-profit that empowers young people through writing workshops. Her writing has been translated into Spanish, and her fiction can be found in The Common and Storyscape Journal.