Emily Greenquist

Emily Greenquist currently navigates life with her husband in a small town near Chicago. Her recent writing appears in Syracuse University’s Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature, Nebulous Magazine, and Laughing Eye Weeping Eye’s The Colorful Tears Tarot guidebook. She was the lead role in ROMERO, a video art project with poet Olivia Cronk. Explore more at www.emilygreenquist.com.

Disease Is a Mirror

Interweaving imagery and prose, Disease Is a Mirror is a lyric memoir exploring illness, identity, intimacy, and the evolving self. Greenquist initially chronicles, and then artfully abstracts, her story, opening “the mirrored door” to the elusive realities of a life-changing diagnosis. Her narrative shows us that a diagnosis is not merely a clinical timeline; it is snails and rabbits, code and lab coats, love and clumsiness. Like an exquisite corpse, Disease Is a Mirror invites readers to explore its intricate and unconventional intersections, each reflection carefully curated; each void, a devastating erasure.