Introducing Emily Marvin

We are pleased to introduce the second of three new fiction editors on the Good Life Review team, Emily Marvin! She is joining us as of issue #7 which is due out in just a few short weeks. 

Emily holds a BA in English, Creative Writing, and Publishing from the University of Iowa and is a recent graduate of the University of Nebraska’s MFA Writing program. Her work has appeared in Entropy Magazine, the single-issue University of Iowa magazine VII, and she was a finalist for the Reedsy Creative Writing Scholarship in 2018. 

When Emily agreed to be an editor we asked her some of the same questions we’ve asked our contributing authors over the past few months. She had this to say about writing, and how that which is most challenging is often the same as what creates the desire within us to capture and relay life’s struggles…

“For me, the most difficult part of the artistic process is finding a way to bring vulnerability to the page. At least with short stories, I’m always looking for characters grappling with some fundamental problem that stems from the heart of the character. As Neil Gaiman once said, “Fiction is a lie that tells us true things over and over again.” When I write, I look for universal truths in my characters’ stories, something that speaks directly to the human experience. It’s the hardest part of the process because none of us have life all figured out, and these truths are like water—hard to pin down and hold in your hands for the reader to see, even for the length of a short story. Incidentally, this exact struggle is what fuels my desire to write—that incessant need to find those heart connections over and over again in different ways and to relay the journey convincingly on the page.”

In her spare time, Emily enjoys bullet journaling, knitting, compulsively collecting books, and wrangling cats. 

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Welcome to the Good Life Emily! We hope you enjoy working with us and reading all the amazing stories headed your way!!

Cheers,
~The Good Life Review Team

PS. More about all of our editors can be found on our masthead.