Emma Riva

Emma Riva has been writing for as long as she can remember. Her first “novel” was a tale dictated to her father about a tiger in her washing machine at age two. She is the author of Night Shift in Tamaqua, a love story for the gig economy  between two night shift workers in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley which features 13 original illustrations by painter Coyote Jacobs. She is interested in unconventional forms of publishing and multimedia collaborations between artists and authors. Her literary influences include Stephen King, Roberto Bolaño, Michael Chabon, and Dara Horn.

Emma is a graduate of The New School and a Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation Author of Tomorrow. Besides her fiction work, she is an experienced fine arts journalist and art consultant. She is originally from Washington Heights, Manhattan, but now lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA.