Emily Waples
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creative nonfiction

“Epidemics of Ordinary Time”

Ploughshares 48.3 (2022)

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“Time Presses”

River Teeth 22.2 (2021)

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“Sick Time”

Southern Humanities Review 54.1 (2021)

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“An Opportunity of Years”

The Los Angeles Review (2021)

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“Mask Orders”

Gordon Square Review 7 (2020)

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“The Ridgeway”


Fourth Genre 22.1 (2020)

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“Freedom:

An Ohio Gothic”

Creative Nonfiction 70 (2019)

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“On Being N.E.D”

Avidly (2017)


reviews & public scholarship

“Sex for the Dying: Palliative Kink and FX’s Dying for Sex.” Synapsis (2025)
“Garth Greenwell is my Emergency Contact: Meditations on Small Rain.” Synapsis (2024)|
“Witness and Care in Rob Delaney’s A Heart That Works.” Synapsis (2024)
“Don’t Forget: Notes Toward Totalities.” Synapsis (2024)
“Memories of ‘Literature, Medicine, and Memory.’”  Synapsis (2023)
“Everyday Disaster Ethics.” Synapsis (2023)
“Against Breasts” Synapsis (2022)
“Jane Austen’s Autopsies” Synapsis (2022)
“How We Teach How We Die” Synapsis (2022)
“The House That Rape Built” River Teeth (2022)
“Notes on Grim” Synapsis (2022)
“Airborne Imaginaries” Synapsis (2021)
“Entering the Mystery: The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness” Synapsis (2021)
 “Exit, Pursued by a Shark: A Pandemic in Four or More Acts” Synapsis (2020)
“Imperfect Measures: Notes on Humanization” Synapsis (2020)
“Mothers’ Natures: Love, Sex, and Degeneration in the 19th Century United States” Nursing Clio (2017)