Emily Hoang

Emily Hoang is a Chinese Vietnamese American writer and editor from San Francisco. She is a first-generation college student who attended UC San Diego and attained a double major in General Biology and Literatures of the World. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco, where she also served as the fiction editor for Invisible City. Shortly after, she interned at Writers House, Ayesha Pande Literary, Thompson Literary Agency, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux under fantastic mentors who have given her a thorough education of the publishing industry.

Her work has been published in or is forthcoming in GASHER Journal, Ice Queen Magazine, Haunt Publishing, among others. Her story, “Inheritance”, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize. She has received support for her writing from Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, The Writers Grotto, Storyknife Writers Retreat, and Abode Press. Recently, she received the 2025 SFF/Nomadic Press Literary Award in Fiction.

She is currently working on a short story collection that uses speculative and horror elements to explore the ways in which the various relationships in our lives and, ultimately, with ourselves, can support and fail us in our journey toward attaining our dreams. She’s also working on a novel about a cat sitter. When she isn’t reading or writing, you can find her kickboxing, exploring new coffee shops, or trying to find the best breakfast sandwich in the city!