Bio
Emi Nietfeld is the award-winning author of Acceptance (Penguin Press ‘22), a memoir of her journey through foster care and homelessness, interrogating the true meanings of resilience, ambition, and success. After graduating from Harvard in 2015, she worked as a software engineer, an experience she wrote about in her viral New York Times essay, “After Working At Google, I’ll Never Let Myself Love a Job Again.”
A recipient of the prestigious Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Reporting Fellowship, Emi writes about inequality and families forThe New York Times, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, and other publications. Her work is taught in high school classrooms, MFA workshops, and doctoral psychology programs. Originally from Minneapolis, Emi lives in New York City with her family.
Contact
For media inquiries, including podcasts, radio, and TV:
emi [at] eminietfeld [dot] com
For speaking engagements:
Alysyn Reinhardt at Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau
areinhardt@penguinrandomhouse.com
For film and TV rights:
Sally Wilcox
sally.b.willcox@gmail.com
For literary and foreign rights:
Mackenzie Brady Watson
mbw@skagency.com
For publicity inquiries regarding Acceptance:
Mollie Reid at Penguin Press
moreid@penguinrandomhouse.com
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