Inside Emily's Head

Inside Emily's Head

About the Substack

Writing. Art. Creativity. Overcoming challenges. Life. The openness of focusing on not being focused.

Free Subscription Benefits

• Occasional public posts containing outtakes from my memoir, Not Just Another Gay Dad Story, poems, art and humor. Updates on the creative and publishing processes.

Paid Subcription Benefits

• Outtakes from Not Just Another Gay Dad Story, texts I deleted from the final manuscript that will never be seen anywhere else.
• Audio files from Gregory Thornton's collection of tapes archived at the Kinsey Institute.
• Essays & Short Stories

Paid Subscription Plans

• $50 a year
• $5 a month

About Emily Thornton Calvo

Emily Calvo, a Chicago writer and artist was noted as one of “30 Writers to Watch” by the Guild Literary Complex. She's shopping her memoir about her gay father. Calvo also created art for Nikki Giovanni's book, "Standing in the Need of Prayer."