The Girl Who
Became a Rabbit
Winner of the 2023 New Southern Voices Poetry Prize
Hub City Press, September 2024
→The Girl Who Became a Rabbit is a book-length lyric, a dark, ruminative poem that pushes the limits of the prose-poetic form to explore how the body carries and shapes grief and what it means to tell a story.
"Recursive, ambitious, strange and beautiful. I couldn't put it down. And, when I finished, I was changed." —MOLLY MCCULLY BROWN, author of Places I've Taken My Body
"Menzel is a marvelous writer and cataloguer of what connects and estranges us from our lives." —KELLY LINK, author of The Book of Love
"A world that will inspire you to think playfully and with kindness and persistence and an openness to that which is not immediately beheld" —DARA BARROIS/DIXON, author of Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina
"In this astonishing debut, Menzel's images are both seductive and unflinching, electrifying and terrifying. Her lyric is the elixir I wish I could gift anyone who’s experienced girlhood." —DIANA KHOI NGUYEN, author of Root Fractures
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The Seventh Wave
Editing and Librarianship
The Seventh Wave is a literary organization and journal. Emilie serves as the Senior Poetry Editor and Librarian for The Seventh Wave. →Learn More
The Gretel
Creative Resource
A visual library guide to gently haunted topics. Here, find the slightly wild and folkloric, the metamorphosed and transfigured, the world of slant angle and jagged line. →Learn More
Creative Library Resources
Library Guide
Resources for creative writers on the tools available to them through public, academic, and online libraries that can help support their creative practices. →Learn More
Creative Information Seeking
Library Science Research
Original research examining the information seeking behavior and visual studies engagement of creative writers. Completed for MSLS thesis. →Learn More