Emma was born and grew up in the far south of Aotearoa New Zealand. She lives in Cornwall. Her publications include the short story collections Three Roads (Red Squirrel Press) and The Lost of Syros (Cultured Llama Publishing) and the novella Travelling in the Dark (Fairlight Books).
She is editor and co-editor respectively of the anthologies Botanical Short Stories: Contemporary Writing about Plants and Flowers and Cornish Short Stories: A Collection of Contemporary Cornish Writing for The History Press.
Emma’s writing has won awards including the Hall and Woodhouse DLF Writing Prize and the Society of Authors’ Tom-Gallon Trust Award. Her work has been published in literary journals in England, New Zealand and Australia.
