[1] Nemens is an alumna of the Kerouac Project writing residency in Orlando, Florida, where she completed a short-story collection called “Scrub.”[2] Nemens worked as an editor at the Center for Architecture and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
[1] In April 2018, then still widely unknown in the New York literary scene, she was appointed editor of The Paris Review by a five-person committee composed of Susannah Hunnewell, Akash Shah, Jeanne McCulloch, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Mona Simpson.
[1] She was the second woman to lead the Review (after Brigid Hughes, who eschewed the official "editor" title out of respect for her predecessor, and the journal's founder, the late George Plimpton).
[6] Nemens has published poetry, fiction and essays in n+1, Esquire and The Gettysburg Review.
[1] As an illustrator, she has obtained a large following for her watercolor portraits of female politicians on Tumblr.