Emily M. Danforth

Emily M. Danforth is an American novelist and professor best known for The Miseducation of Cameron Post, a coming-of-age story about a teenager sent to a conversion therapy camp. She also wrote Plain Bad Heroines, a gothic mystery. Born and raised in Miles City, Montana, she holds an MFA from the University of Montana and a PhD from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and she lives in Providence, Rhode Island.