Emily Sernaker is a writer and human rights professional. Her work has appeared in&nbsp;the Los Angeles Times,&nbsp;Ms. magazine,&nbsp;McSweeney’s,&nbsp;The Sun,&nbsp;Rattle,&nbsp;New Ohio Review,&nbsp;GOOD Media,&nbsp;The Rumpus,&nbsp;and more. She lives in New York.

Emily Sernaker

Going Toward What Glows: An Interview with Ben Folds

"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie

Music

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

The Gift of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s 100th Birthday

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Grief, Ritual, and Estrangement: An Interview with sam sax

Poetry and Song: The Sublime Spirituals of Kwame Dawes

Emily Sernaker is a writer and human rights professional. Her work has appeared in&nbsp;the Los Angeles Times,&nbsp;Ms. magazine,&nbsp;McSweeney’s,&nbsp;The Sun,&nbsp;Rattle,&nbsp;New Ohio Review,&nbsp;GOOD Media,&nbsp;The Rumpus,&nbsp;and more. She lives in New York.