The Bells

Cai Emmonswas the author of six novels:ThisMother’sSon,The Stylist,WeatherWoman,SinkingIslands,Livid, andUnleashed, and one short story collection,Vanishing. Winner of the Oregon Book Award, the Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest, a Nautilus Award, and finalist for theMissouri ReviewEditor’s Prize as well as theNarrative MagazineFiction Prize, Emmons was also short-listed for the Sarton Award and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her essays and stories appeared in such publications asTriQuarterly, LitHub, Electric Literature, The LA Times,andMs. Magazine.Asumma cum laudegraduate of Yale College, Emmons held MFA degrees in film and fiction. She taught at several colleges and universities, most recently in the University of Oregon’s Creative Writing Program. After living with ALS for two years, she ended her life using Oregon’s Death with Dignity laws in January 2023.