Emily Rapp

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A former Fulbright scholar and graduate of Harvard Divinity School, Emily Rapp is the author of Poster Child: A Memoir. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Salon and Slate, among other publications. She is the recipient of the Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award, a James A. Michener Fellowship at the University of Texas-Austin and the Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing fellowship at Bucknell University. She is currently a professor of creative writing and literature at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design and a faculty member in the University of California-Riverside MFA program.

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Ronan's Diagnosis

(6) Comments | Posted March 10, 2013 | 4:46 PM

This is a love story, which, like all great love stories, is ultimately a story of loss. On January 10, 2011, my husband, Rick, and I received the worst possible news: that our son, Ronan, then nine months old, had Tay-Sachs disease, a rare, progressive and always fatal condition with...

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Beauty: What Does It Look Like?

(69) Comments | Posted March 22, 2012 | 11:45 AM

What is authentic beauty? I feel like every woman struggles to define, and to embody, it, but the question is even more pressing when you're a woman with a disability, as I am. When I was four, my left leg was amputated as a result of a birth defect, and...

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