Emily Mitchell
Emily Mitchell lives with her husband just outside Washington, DC. Her second story collection, The Church of Divine Electricity, will be available in November 2025. Because she felt she wasn’t quite nerdy enough, she has been getting into bird-watching.
Thread
So, all right then: What was it like to be transformed into what I am now? I’ll tell you. It was like a sundering. A splitting. Icy lightning cleaved along my limbs. At the same time, my skin was turning fruit-rind tough, dully reflective like obsidian, and punctured by small hairs the size and strength of claws.
October 2025On Becoming A Cat
Please understand: the external metamorphosis comes only at the very end, after a long, sustained effort. There is a lot of inner work you have to do before then. Also there is luck involved.
December 2018Has something we published moved you? Fired you up? Did we miss the mark? We’d love to hear about it.
SEND US A LETTER