Stories by Emily Marucci (PDF Version)

About the Book

There are hard things going on in the world—dancing around us, dancing around inside of us. There are the bad things and there are the good things. And then there are all the moments in between that are neither—but just as important. This book documents so little of it all—its fragments, pieces of so many stories. It’s the tiniest piece of sadness, the tiniest piece of joy, the tiniest piece of the tiniest moment. But words can do things. They lift us up, they hold us down, they make us sit in the darkness until we understand more. That’s this book. All the little moments, stacked up.

About Emily Marucci

There’s only one thing Emily Marucci values above the written word, and that's family. Born in the late '80s to a creative brood, Marucci found deep inspiration in storytelling, a nightly ritual at the dinner table. This constant narrative combined with emotional outpouring—from crying to kissing on the cheek to listening to her grandfather’s trumpet sing—all form her childhood memories and make her feel at home.

Becoming a young poet was a natural next step. She eventually moved to New York City and gathered an artistic cohort, taking nostalgic photos with a 35mm camera and writing for zines. What began as an amateur expression evolved into SHK Magazine, a digital hub created from scratch, featuring the likes of Lorde, Tove Lo, and Langley Fox Hemingway. She has created digital copy for Lord & Taylor, Hudson's Bay, Tarin Thomas, Cienne NY, LuMee, Nexxus NY Hair Care and most recently, for sustainable fashion brand EILEEN FISHER.