Emma Logan
Welcome.
I’m an author and poet based in Salem, Massachusetts, writing about women who refuse to disappear—women who speak when silence is safer, and who choose themselves anyway.
My work moves across literary fiction, historical narrative, poetry, and creative nonfiction, exploring voice, resilience, and the aftermath of being taught to shrink. I’m interested in what happens after survival: how we name what was taken, and what it costs to reclaim ourselves.
My creative nonfiction is forthcoming in Months to Years and How I Learned, and my poetry has been recognized in national contests and will appear in the Pieces of Salem Anthology this summer.
I’m currently querying my debut novels Even Then and Daughter of the Gallows, the first in my The Girls They Couldn’t Silence series. This space holds reflections on writing, motherhood, history, and the slow, defiant work of turning lived experience into art.
Featured Works
Even Then
A story of endurance, healing, and the courage it takes to choose yourself.
Daughter of the Gallows
In Salem, 1702, a midwife’s daughter returns to the town that condemned her mother, determined to reclaim her voice.
Bound in Blood and Light
The first book in a sweeping fantasy saga about legacy, love, and the light that survives even the darkest night.
Poetry Highlights
I write poems that explore silence, resilience, and the body as both wound and witness. My work has been recognized as a finalist in the River Styx Poetry Contest, among others.
There is beauty in the broken,
for that is where life is lived fully.
Like the lotus,
rising from the mud.
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Why I Write About Silence
There’s a certain kind of silence that lives inside women—the kind that isn’t empty, but full.
- art as healing
- author reflections
- creative growth
- creative nonfiction
- creative process
- finding your voice
- healing
- healing through words
- literary craft
- modern feminism
- motherhood
- poetry
- prose
- reclamation
- resilience
- silence
- the daughters of cassandra
- women writers
- writing
- writing and trauma
- writing from feeling
- writing life