Emma Straub


Emma Straub is an American novelist and bookstore owner. Her novels include Modern Lovers, The Vacationers, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures and All Adults Here. She is the author of a short story collection entitled Other People We Married. In May 2022, Straub's novel This Time Tomorrow was published by Riverhead Books. Straub was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2024.

Personal life

Straub is the daughter of horror and suspense writer Peter Straub. She is married to Michael Fusco-Straub (born, a graphic designer, with whom she has two sons. A graduate of The Cathedral School of St. John the Divine, Saint Ann's School, Oberlin College, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, she lives in Brooklyn and owns the bookstore Books Are Magic.
She was an editor of Avery Anthology.

Works