Bio
emily m. danforth's debut (Young Adult) novel, The Miseducation Of Cameron Post (2012), has been translated into nine languages. It won the 2012 Montana Book Award and was a finalist for the American Library Association’s Morris Debut Award. The Miseducation of Cameron Post was later adapted into a Sundance award winning feature film directed by Desiree Akhavan.
emily’s second novel, and first for adults, Plain Bad Heroines (2020), was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and named a best book of the year by The Washington Post, O Magazine, Vulture.com, Book Riot.com, and Buzzfeed.com. It was also named one of the Top Ten LGBTQIA books of the year by the American Library Association.
emily has an MFA in Fiction from the University of Montana and a Ph.D in English-Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She lives in New England with her wife, Erica.
emily was born and raised in Miles City, Montana, a town best known for its Bucking Horse Sale - which was once listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for hosting the most intoxicated people, per capita, of any US event. Her favorite 1980’s slasher movie is April Fool’s Day and no, she doesn’t want to hear why you think she’s wrong about that choice.
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Here is a photo of emily in a canoe taken in 2002 on a disposable black and white camera.
Here are several much more recent photos of emily that you may use for publicity purposes if you credit Chris Mongeau: