Hi! I'm Emily Sun, a University of Michigan-turned-University of Chicago undergrad. I write, report, and edit. Here are some examples.
What I've done:
Writing
It started on a mountain, by a lake, on the eastern seaboard of the United States. Trying to reach out and touch something which is not the dull innards of my own skull. LOG | Substack Calvino remembers what we forget — that this is an “oblong island between two rivers,” its present determined by its past, its past containing all contingent futures. New York Literature Project My sojourner status is sliding into a permanent nuptial with civilized life, any wildness bulldozed by the inertia of old routine. Looking for Walden in Midtown Manhattan | The Michigan Daily A hankering for Google Sheets spiraled into a Goodreads trip followed by Instagram stalking before I snapped out of the digital brain haze. I quit tech for a week | The Michigan Daily I don't like to think of myself as a chicken in an egg. / Think of yourself as a Kinder toy in its chocolate shell. WHO STOLE MY RED MARKER? | Horace Mann Theatre Company
Reporting
“From then on out, it was smooth sailing. Of course, I'm fucking kidding. It absolutely was not.” Kemp Powers honors 2024 Hopwood Award winners | The Michigan Daily “How do we grow something that's not always under this capitalist exchange value system? How do we retrain these students to understand that they have power over the content of their own education?” Inaugural Taubman Architecture Ball celebrates creativity outside classrooms | The Michigan Daily "All fiction is about sadness and tragedy, it's about what is wrong with life. And that's why you want literature." Michigan Quarterly Review releases winter issue | The Michigan Daily He declined to specify how much his family paid, but it was a "a lot." The ethics of out-of-school college counseling | The Horace Mann Record
Editing
125-row, 22-column spreadsheet of data desks in college newsrooms, inspired by the 2024 NICAR & IRE Conference. Data Journalism at College Newspapers: A Typology 33 poems, 10 decades, one redesigned centennial celebration. Manuscript, Horace Mann's Poetry & Art Magazine - Volume 104, Issue 2 29 issues, 125+ articles (ChatGPT! George Santos! $60k tuition!), and too many pie charts. The Record, Horace Mann's Weekly Newspaper - Volume 120
What I'm doing, [time]:
Wrapping up the New York Literature Project. Sleuthing for poetry readings in the city, then remembering my anti-poetry-reading screed.
What I'm reading & thinking about (now, or in perpetuum):
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West.