Emerson Whitney is a poet, writer, and journalist based in Los Angeles. Emerson's work has been featured in The Huffington Post, NPR, New York Observer, and has been widely anthologized, most recently in Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, Bombay Gin, and &Now Awards: Best Innovative Writing. Emerson is a kari edwards fellow and a professor at Los Angeles City College.