emilie menzel

ABOUT

As an arts and humanities librarian, Emilie supports libraries as active sites of information creation and librarians as conduits for interdisciplinary collaboration and creativity. She works with Duke Libraries as a collection development assistant for the Lilly Art Library, the assessment analyst and teaching resources coordinator for the digital humanities project Project Vox, and the outreach coordinator for the Dictionary of Art Historians. Further, Emilie is the curator for the gently haunted creative library guide The Gretel, as well as the research and instruction librarian and managing poetry editor for the arts and literary non-profit The Seventh Wave. Her masters paper explores the intertextual information needs of visual artists and creative writers.

As a writer, Emilie is the recipient of the Deborah Slosberg Memorial Award in Poetry (selected by Diana Khoi Nguyen) and the Cara Parravani Memorial Award in Fiction (selected by Leigh Newman), and her manuscript The Girl Who Became a Rabbit was a finalist for Tupelo Press's Berkshire Prize. Her poetry and prose hybridities are featured in such journals as The Bennington Review, The Offing, and Copper Nickel. Recent foci for her creative work include explorations of the rhetoric of fables and fairy tales, bodily memory and haunting, and metamorphoses.

Emilie holds a BA in English from Wellesley College, an MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and an MSLS (August 2022) with an Academic Libraries concentration from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.