Em [Marie] Kohl is a neurodivergent white queer creative living on Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY), whose personal and community practices move from a trauma informed center. Em’s current practice is in dialogue with loneliness-isolation & its redress, access & accessibility, cosmic ecology and love.
Their writing can be found in Everybody Press Review, Pom Pom Press, The Ana, BULLSHIT LIT, Inkwell and Hymn for the Living Poet, (forthcoming), amongst others. Her visual work includes the internationally screened collaborative dance film, ground-swell. Em holds a Creative Writing MFA from Mills College and a BFA in Visual Arts from Rutgers Mason Gross.
Every first Thursday you can find them co-hosting the queer reading series exquisites at Polly’s Cafe in Brooklyn. exquisites also holds monthly nomadic workshops, and publishes an anthology twice a You can find Em teaching Yoga for Queer Bodies throughout Brooklyn, learn more about their class offerings here.
Outside of exquisites & Yoga for Queer Bodies Em is a community programer for Aberdeen Community Garden, and an Advisory Board member for the compost non-profit BK ROT.
Em builds community through mutual care and an openness towards continual growth.
| also goes by: E | pronouns: they/she |