FEATURES
Interviews and Events
Guest Critic at Radiant Hall Studios - Pittsburgh, PA, 2023"
“Interview with Art Critic and Published Author Emma Riva” in Papers Publishing
Moderator at book launch for Gwendolyn Kiste’s The Reluctant Immortals (Simon & Schuster, 2022) at Riverstone Bookstore, Pittsburgh, PA 2022
Participant in Author Alley 2022 - Loganberry Books, Shaker Heights, OH, 2022
Vendor table and signing at Loganberry Books in Shaker Heights, OH, 2022
Reading, signing, and discussion at Red Hawk Coffee - Sharpsburg, PA 2022
Reading and signing at Ketchup City Creative - Sharpsburg, PA 2022
Reading and signing at Riverstone Books - Squirrel Hill, PA, 2022.
On Night Shift in Tamaqua for The Art of Conversation with Corey Ochai of Atithi Studios, 2022.
Book launch for Night Shift in Tamaqua at One Art Space - New York, NY, 2021
On “Ghosthood” and adventure fiction for the Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation Author of Tomorrow, - London, UK, 2021
Publications
“La Vie Est Compliquée” for Write On! 2021
“Ghosthood” in Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation September Showcase, 2021 - viewed over 24,000 times.
Links to archival materials from earlier in my career are available upon request.
Awards
Eugene Lang College First Year Writing Award for “All the Portraits in the World: Frank O’Hara, Free Verse, and Ghazals,” 2019
Poetry Society of London Foyle Commended Poet of the Year for “Brooklyn Heights,” 2018
Ned Vizzini Teen Writing Prize for “The H Train,” 2017
Northeast Council of Japanese Teachers Japanese Speech Award for 「フエンシングマスクの向う」, 2017