Emma Straub

Emma Straub (born 1980) is an American novelist. Her novels include Modern Lovers, The Vacationers, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures, and All Adults Here. She is also the author of the short-story collection Other People We Married. In 2022, Straub's novel This Time Tomorrow was published by Riverhead Books. Straub was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2024. She founded the independent bookstore Books Are Magic in 2017.

Personal life Straub is the daughter of writer Peter Straub. She is a graduate of The Cathedral School of St. John the Divine, Saint Ann's School, Oberlin College, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

She is married to graphic designer Michael Fusco-Straub, with whom she has two sons. They live in Brooklyn and own the bookstore Books Are Magic, which Straub founded in 2017.

Career Straub's first book, Fly-Over State, is a novella that was published in 2009. It was followed by her short-story collection Other People We Married.

She was an editor of Avery Anthology.

In addition to her adult novels, she has also written three children's picture books.

Straub received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2024.