Emma Kemp is a writer and researcher based in Los Angeles, working across art, ecology and cultural criticism. She is an Assistant Professor at Otis College of Art and Design, where she has taught writing and design since 2015. She holds an M.F.A. in Writing and Critical Studies from California Institute of the Arts (2014), where she is Program Coordinator of the CalArts Summer Institute. Her essays have appeared in X—TRA Journal of Contemporary Art, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Flash Art, CARLA, and others. She is the recipient of grants and awards including a Utah Humanities Fellowship, an Al Larvick National Grant, and the Ithaca New Voices literary award. Kemp is co-founder and director of Concerning Landscape, a nonprofit and interdisciplinary research studio exploring ecocritical activism through their primary project, No Canyon Hills (NCH), which is working to protect a significant ecological area in LA’s Verdugo Mountains.