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Emma Riva

Emma Riva is an art writer, author, and curator based in Pittsburgh, PA. She serves as the managing editor of UP, an international online and print magazine covering street art, graffiti, fine arts, and their intersections in popular culture. She is also a masthead staff writer at Belt Magazine and a contributor to Bunker Review, Widewalls, Carnegie Magazine, and Rust Belt Girl. She published her first novel, Night Shift in Tamaqua, in 2021. More about her can be found on her website and Instagram.

articles by this author

This Must be the Place: Newfields Takes the Domestic Outdoors With Home Again

Rebecca R. Peel Imagines What Will Last in We’re All Thinking It

Here No More: Lexi Bishop on the History and Future of Pittsburgh’s Commercial Art Galleries

Akudzwe Elsie Chiwa’s God of Questions

Finding Ester Petukhova