Esmé Michelle Watkins

Bio

Esmé Michelle Watkins is a writer and attorney from Los Angeles. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, Indiana Review, The Rumpus, Anomaly Journal, and elsewhere. She is the former fiction editor of Apogee Journal and Blackberry: A Magazine, and a former co-literary coordinator of the Mixed Remixed Literary Festival. Esmé was named a finalist for the Yemasse Fiction Prize (2017), and is a recipient of fellowships from the Jacob Waletzky Fund, Callaloo, Kimbilio, and Columbia University.