Emily Maloney

Biography

Emily Maloney is the author of Cost of Living (Henry Holt, forthcoming 2022). Her work has also appeared in the Atlantic, Glamour, Best American Essays, the American Journal of Nursing, and other publications. She has worked as an ER tech and EMT, dog groomer, pastry chef, general contractor, tile setter, and catalog model, and has sold her ceramics at art fairs. She lives in Evanston, Illinois.

See Work

ESSAYS / Fall 2021

Something for the Pain

By Emily Maloney ,  Photography by David Samuel Stern

Where is the opioid crisis headed?

Photography by David Samuel Stern
ESSAYS / Spring 2016

Cost of Living

By Emily Maloney ,  Illustration by Carlo Giambarresi

Sitting on a cot in the emergency room, I filled out paperwork certifying myself as the responsible party for my own medical care—signed it without looking, anchoring myself to this debt, a stone dropped in the middle of a stream.