Emily Rapp

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Emily Rapp (1974-) is an American memoirist known for the best-selling memoir Poster Child (2007), which relates her experiences growing up with only one leg as a "poster child" for the March of Dimes. Rapp is a graduate of Harvard University and the MFA program in fiction at the University of Texas-Austin. She currently lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Antioch University-Southern California.

Newsday wrote of the book: "Rapp writes breathtakingly, almost magically, of the world of wooden legs, silicone feet and metal knee hinges that are made in a filthy workshop by a man who has no soap in his bathroom and dying plants in his waiting room..." Carolyn See in The Washington Post wrote: "Poster Child beautifully illustrates every human being's sometimes overt, sometimes covert struggle against the intractability of our own physical condition."

Rapp's fiction has also appeared in leading literary journals such as StoryQuarterly, The Cimarron Review and The Bellevue Literary Review.