Emily Sexton

Emily Sexton is a former competitive track athlete who spent ten years sprinting toward finish lines who now has her sights set on a different kind of runway. Currently on track to become a pilot with the U.S. Air Force, she brings the same discipline and precision from the track to the cockpit. By day, she trains, studies, and charts a flight path toward military aviation. By night, however, she writes quietly in the corners of her mind, often under dim lighting and with more emotional risk than she's comfortable admitting. She writes because vulnerability terrifies her, which is probably why she’s so drawn to it on the page. Her work explores themes of identity, grit, and the chaos that lives just beneath control. She has a soft spot for underdogs, open skies, and sentences that hit like clean takeoffs.