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Emma Pattee | Journalist

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Just your friendly neighborhood prepper mom
Coined the term #climateshadow
I wrote TILT (2025)
Words @ Atlantic, NYT, Guardian, etc

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5 seconds after I took this photo, a teenager ran up to me and was like WOW YOU WROTE A BOOK CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!! and that is the energy that I am bringing into 2026 🫰 🫰

eternal gratitude to @barnesandnoble for seeing something universal in my weird little earthquake book, and choosing Tilt as the fiction pick of January by @emmapattee

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9 months ago

🇺🇸 Le @festivalamerica , c’est fini ! Quatre jours de littérature américaine à l’honneur, portés à Vincennes par de nombreuses rencontres et dedicaces. Cette année, nous avons eu la joie d’y accompagner Emma Pattee (La déroute) et Paul Harding (Cet autre Eden). Un immense merci au public et lecteurs, aux libraires du stand, et à toute l’équipe du festival pour cette magnifique édition 📚 Rendez-vous en 2028 ✨ by @emmapattee

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A riveting read, an evening of conversation, and the author behind it all. 📚✨

Join us next week for an evening with Emma Pattee! Emma is a local climate journalist and fiction writer. Her debut novel, Tilt, follows a woman who is nine months pregnant as she makes her way across Portland after a devastating earthquake. It’s a gripping story of impending motherhood, survival, and the connections that carry us through the unthinkable.

Clackamas Women Lawyers is hosting this special evening and has generously extended the invitation to all Thirsty Caterpillar customers. We’d love to see you there!

Tickets are $45 and include event entry, a paperback copy of Tilt, and light refreshments. Please purchase your tickets directly through Clackamas Women Lawyers at the link in our bio! by @emmapattee

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21 days ago

A climate journalist, a finance educator, and now bestselling authors, Emma Pattee and Amanda Holden take this show to Seattle to yap about whatever exists at the center of their best friends Venn diagram: patriarchy, women & money, publishing, The Dark Wizard (ugh), the fight for a Free Fucking Palestine, and ecological, financial, and philosophical preparation in a time of chaos and collapse. It’s two book talks for the price of one! (free) RSVP in bio or with @thirdplacebooks by @emmapattee

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2 months ago

we've been summering pretty hard over here.

Deleted this app about 7 weeks ago and haven't missed it at all, sorry if you've been trying to get a hold of me here! maybe I'll be back in the fall? by @emmapattee

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Happy book launch day to the most ambitious woman I know ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ @stefanieoconnell by @emmapattee

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4 months ago

another day, another dance party 👯‍♂️ by @emmapattee

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5 months ago

Join us this Weds. May 6th for a book reading and discussion with Portland author Emma Pattee at 6:00pm at the White Salmon Valley Community Library. This event is sponsored by The Friends of the White Salmon Library. taken in White Salmon Valley Community Library by @emmapattee

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5 months ago

Skip the airport endcap. 📚

This Mother's Day, give the reader in your life something her shelves will actually thank you for: 10 California books handpicked by Alta's editors and critics. From Julie Otsuka's The Swimmers to Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts, Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, Cherríe Moraga's mother-daughter memoir Native Country of the Heart, Emma Pattee's earthquake debut Tilt, and a slim, beautifully made volume of poems by Māori poet Tayi Tibble.

Mother-daughter memoirs that refuse easy sentiment. A field guide to the West's best indie bookstores. One keepsake issue for the mom building (or arguing with) her own California library.

Tap the link in bio for the full guide. 🌹

#MothersDay #MothersDayGifts #GiftsForMom #BookLovers #BookishGifts #Bookstagram #CaliforniaBooks #CaliforniaReads #LiteraryGifts #ReadCalifornia #IndependentBookstores #AltaJournal #CaliforniaBookClub #WomenWriters #ReadersOfInstagram #BookLover #GiftGuide by @emmapattee

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5 months ago

and Happy Monday to all the men who are too concerned with increasing their Vo2 max to stop and help a crying girl 🤐 taken in Mt. Tabor City Park by @emmapattee

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Honored to be in the Labor issue of @orion_magazine talking with Sarah Schulman and Naomi R Williams about the risks and rewards of solidarity...and why Jolene is the perfect solidarity anthem.

This topic was vital to me as I've been expanding my own capacity for risk and solidarity in my personal life and my career. Enormous thanks to @tararaem for bringing this to life and @indimaverick for the gorgeous illustration. by @emmapattee

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Huge thanks to @we_are_halo for hosting me on Orcas Island for All Island Reads 2026. A truly remarkable place 💕 taken in Orcas Island, San Juan Islands, Washington State, USA by @emmapattee

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