Emmett Knowlton
About Emmett
Emmett Knowlton is a writer, journalist, and educator from Montclair, New Jersey. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in the Southern Humanities Review, MAYDAY Magazine, The Masters Review, and Writer's Digest, where he won the 22nd Annual Short Short Fiction Prize. He has also been nominated for a Puschcart Prize and received Amherst College's Peter Burnett Howe Prize for fiction.
As a journalist, Knowlton won multiple Emmy Awards as a member of the production staff at HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, and has published sportswriting in The New York Times and Insider, among other publications.
Before Interlochen, he earned his M.F.A. in creative writing at the University of Montana, where he was also a teaching fellow. He is currently working on a novel about family secrets and distance running.
B.A., English - Amherst College
M.F.A., Creative Writing - University of Montana