Nemens is a writer and illustrator based in Baton Rouge by way of Brooklyn. Her creative writing has been featured in The Gettysburg Review, Eleven Eleven, and on Esquire.com, as well as in the recent chapbook, Butcher Papers, and she is a 2014 Pushcart Prize nominee. As an illustrator she's collaborated with Harvey Pekar and painted miniature portraits of all the women in congress, a project that was featured on national TV and across the web. Since autumn 2013 she has served as the coeditor and prose editor of The Southern Review.