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Biography

Emily Hoover, MFA is a Senior Lecturer of English, Creative Writing Coordinator, and faculty advisor of the student led literary journal 300 Days of Sun at Nevada State University. She teaches first-year composition, literary theory & criticism, film & adaptation studies, Modern American poetry, and professional editing & publishing courses as well as craft and manuscript classes in short fiction, long-form fiction, flash fiction, and formal poetry. Her research interests include trauma-informed and critical pedagogies, teacher self-disclosure, and mad studies. She is the author of the poetry chapbook My Mother as a Serrano Pepper (Zeitgeist Press, 2023) and the flash fiction chapbook Sinners to the Back of the House (Bull City Press, 2025). Her creative works have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the ‘Net, Best Microfiction, and Best Small Fictions anthologies.