Emma Binder is a writer from Wisconsin and a 2023-2025 Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University. They earned their MFA in Fiction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and have received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, Vermont Studio Center, and Writing By Writers. They received an O. Henry Prize, the Indiana Review Fiction Prize, the Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction, and a Wisconsin Writers Award. Their short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Best American Short Stories 2025, The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners, The Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, and elsewhere.

Currently based in Oakland, they are working on a novel.