Associate Professor, English
Co-Director, Jail Education Project
I am a fiction writer. My short stories have appeared in Ploughshares, New England Review, AGNI, One Story, and elsewhere and have won two Pushcart Prizes. I have received awards from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Elizabeth George Foundation. My first collection is Love Like That by Henry Holt & Co. I am currently at work on a novel.
Books
“Love Like That” (Henry Holt & Co.,)
Short Fiction
“The Package Deal.” New England Review, Vol. 40, No. 3, 2019
“The Sacrifice.” AGNI, Vol. 84, 2016
“The Devil’s Triangle.” New England Review, Vol. 36, No. 4, 2015
“Plagiarism.” The Sun, November 2015
“The Blue Bowl.” Ploughshares, Vol. 39, No. 4, Winter 2013-2014
“Marvel Sands.” The Sun, December 2013
“Crossing the Sagamore.” Cincinnati Review, 10.2, 2013
“Exuma.” Mississippi Review, Vol. 41, 1&2, 2013
“Sure, Fine.” American Scholar, Spring 2013
“The Zen Thing.” One Story, Issue #175, 2013
Award Anthologies
The Pushcart Prize XLI: Best of the Small Presses, 2016: “The Devil’s Triangle”
The Pushcart Prize XXXIX: Best of the Small Presses, 2014: “The Zen Thing” (lead story)
Emma Duffy-Comparone is an Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of the Merrimack College Jail Education Project. Her fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, New England Review, AGNI, One Story, and elsewhere and has received two Pushcart Prizes. Her first collection, LOVE LIKE THAT (Henry Holt) was named one of the “Best Books To Read in 2021” by Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Refinery29 and was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. She has an MFA from Boston University.
Emma teaches introductory creative writing, fiction, and non-fiction. She believes now, more than ever, is the moment for good writing, and she loves to help students wield language with equal parts authenticity, beauty, and punch.
When not at work, she’s probably in the ocean or reading by the rocks while her partner surfs. If not there, an antique store. Otherwise, at home rearranging the furniture, procrastinating something, or cooking vegetarian food with a cat or two in tow.
