Emilie R. Small

Emilie R. Small is a Los Angeles based television writer, screenwriter, and author. She has written for numerous television productions, receiving an Emmy Nomination for an episode of St. Elsewhere. She is a member of the Writers Guild of America West and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She received her B.A. from University of California Los Angeles and her M.A. from New York University in History of the Modern Far East. Emilie has recently completed her first novel which takes us on a journey of self-discovery with a West Coast college girl in the late 1960s: an illegal abortion, student demonstrations against the Vietnam war, and sexual awakening in an evolving love relationship, as she tours the West with her hippie friends’ rock n’ roll band. Altered: Stories We Found in Our Closets, is a collection of personal essays written and edited by Emilie and members of her longtime writers’ group. Digging into their closets, they discovered that essays about clothes on everything from fringe jackets and fishing vests to bridal tulle and Beatles T-shirts have the power to evoke memories, not just for themselves, but for everyone who reads them.