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Books

The Boy with a Bird in His Chest is a queer coming-of-age novel about Owen, a boy who has a literal bird living inside of his chest. Ultimately, the book is about the secrets we carry, the ways we try to stay safe, and growing up having to hide what makes you lovable to the world and to yourself. The Boy with a Bird in His Chest was released on February 15, 2022 by Atria Books. It is available in the United States and Canada, wherever books are sold. You can order it here.

The Sacred Text of Rosa who is Great was published by Quiet Lightning Books (Spring 2016). It is a collaborative art book that was originally posted across social platforms. Written by Emme Lund. Illustrated by Stella Peach.

Prose & Poetry

“When They Come for Our Joy,” an essay on moving towards queer joy despite all the recent anti-trans legislation appeared in Romper

The essay “Caterpillar Soup: A Trans Girl Finds Her Style” appeared in Autostraddle

The essay “Talking to Myself: On the Occult” appeared in Femme Art Review

Emme Lund interviewed Portland author Stacy Brewster for the Portland Mercury

The essay “How We Talk, or Why I’m not Seeking Vocal Therapy as a Trans Woman” appeared in the Portland Mercury

The essay “Everything I know About Queer Community I learned from Swamp Thing” was published in Electric Literature

The essay “Saying you Support Trans Rights isn’t Enough. Here’s How you Prove it.” was published in TIME

The essay “A Body Full of Ghosts” was published by The Rumpus

A guest post for friend Zoe Tuck’s Reading Blog on reading Elena Ferrante Neapolitan Novels and transitioning

Emme wrote about her writing process for the Oregon Literary Arts Blog. You can read it here

The short story “How to Paint Mountains” was featured on the Apt Magazine website

The poem “A Prayer for Rain (Formerly known as Speak this Spell When in Need of Rain)” appeared in issue 53 of sPARKLE & bLINK

The poems “READ ALL ABOUT IT,” “Power Through,” and “SMOOCH” all appeared in Vol. 2 Issue 6 of the chapbook that accompanies each Writing Without Walls reading

“A Shed is a Shed is a Shed” appeared in Vol. 5 (print) of Paper Darts

The essay, “On Obsession” appeared in the Spring 2013 issue of 580 Split

Emme Lund was part of the experimental translation issue of McSweeney’s wherein her translated words appear next to the words of Jeffrey Eugenides, Zadie Smith, Dave Eggers, Andrew Sean Greer and many more. Issue 42 can be purchased here

“Their Trash is My Treasure” appeared in issue 1 of Nib Magazine (defunct)

“The Sound a Rocket Makes When it Blasts off into Outer Space” appeared in issue 4.0 of sPARKLE & bLINK

“the god of getting what i want” appeared in Issue 3.5 of sPARKLE & bLINK

“A Sinfonia Do Circo” appeared in Vol. 5 No. 3 of Brink Magazine (defunct)

“An Evening with a Noctiphile” appeared in Issue 1.0 of Bad Futurist (defunct)

“Losing It” appeared in the Summer of 2011 issue of Xenith Magazine (defunct)

Her essay, “Among the Giants,” appeared in Issue 43-100 of Boneshaker: A Bicycle Almanac and was also included in the ten year anniversary Best of Boneshaker Collection

“In Search of Spare Change” appeared in Issue 10 of 34th Parallel

Non-Fiction Articles

She was also a contributor for the website, Portlandbeer.org (That was a lot of fun)

Film

Emme Lund was a script advisor for the Liz Lewis film Positive

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