Emily’s debut book of essays, Some Girls, will be published by Galileo Press in March 2025.
“May joins an ancient conversation about personality and essence. That is, how we let personality dominate our essence, and how difficult it can be to reveal or claim our essence when others only see our personality. But she uses her confident and quiet voice to move this topic past personal rhetoric. The narrative—our narrative—is all around us. We don’t need a pair of magic glasses to see it. Others might explain how static represents a visual or dramatic or sonic disturbance. May brings a post punk perspective; in her, there is no such thing as static. Distortion is in the ear of the beholder. To put it bluntly: May’s writing knocks me out.” - Galileo Press