Emma has wanted to be a writer since she was a child, entranced by the mysterious squiggles on pages that grown-ups magically translated into stories. Once she realised they were words, her ambition was set – to write some of her own. Emma gets most of her ideas by daydreaming. She loves browsing second-hand bookshops, imagining what the past was like, and anything to do with time-travel. She has worked as a nursery assistant and in a library. She was shortlisted for the Kelpies Writing Prize in 2019. Emma is half German, but grew up in Scotland.
