Emmalea Russo

Emmalea Russo’s first novel, Vivienne, was published by Arcade in September 2024. Her second novel, The Moon Papers, is forthcoming this summer. Her books of poetry are G, Wave Archive, Confetti, and Magenta. Recent writings have appeared in Artforum, BOMB, Spike Art Magazine, Compact, Granta, and Los Angeles Review of Books. She has a private astrology practice and lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and at the Jersey shore.

RECOMMENDS: DREAM MACHINES by Emmalea Russo

March 24, 2026 · Interviews & Reviews

Dreams. Dreams. Dreams. Nightmares. Reveries. How do they power us? Take hold? What do they tell us, in their own wicked and unwieldy ways? Lately, they’ve been on my mind, as I’m teaching a yearlong dream study workshop. We’ve been delving deep into dreams from literature, film, and psychoanalytic cases. I often teach long and trippy workshops, but this might be my favorite yet. I chose dreams this year, in part, because in the days/daze of digital-everything and quick AI answers, the dream remains impenetrable. It is remnant, belonging to the world of high weirdness and ungraspable grossness and subtlety….

Genta Nishku

MAKING CONNECTIONS AND DRAWING LINES: AN INTERVIEW WITH EMMALEA RUSSO by Rebecca Gransden

November 11, 2025 · Fiction

Since its release in fall 2024 Emmalea Russo’s Vivienne (Arcade Publishing) has had time to percolate with the culture it so sharply interrogates. A slanted satire, the book poetically autopsies online mores and offers a giddy sojourn to the realm of the artist, both the world they invent for themselves, and that imposed from outside. Three generations of a family are positioned as focus for the novel, and Russo bestows this trio with an enchanted ordinariness. What constitutes a violent act? By the end, flesh and blood puts words to shame. I spoke to Emmalea about the book. Rebecca…

Genta Nishku