Emely Taveras spent nearly a decade as a wedding photographer and creative project manager before turning to fiction. That background trained her to find structure in her own and other’s messiest moments. Her work centers on Dominican American identity, queerness, and family. She writes realism that occasionally tips into something stranger, where grief resurfaces in the body before it shows up anywhere else. She's currently writing her debut novel, about a Dominican American daughter confronting the wreckage a family leaves behind and what it takes to sift through it.

Her short fiction has appeared in The Branches Journal, Peatsmoke Journal, The Bloomin' Onion, and Expat Press, with a story forthcoming in Lambda Literary's Emerge Anthology. Her story "Teeth in All the Wrong Places" won Peatsmoke Journal's 2025 Editor's Prize in Fiction. She's received a fellowship to Lambda Literary's 2026 Emerging Writers Retreat and multiple writerships from the Lighthouse Writers Workshop.

She was the first in her family to go to college, graduating summa cum laude from Kean University with a BA in English Writing. She's currently a Fiction Fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.