Author of 20 Years Later, Emma was born in a tiny coastal village in Cornwall, south west England, during one of the hottest summers on record. Four years later she started to write stories and never stopped until she penned a short story that secured her a place at Oxford University to read Experimental Psychology.

After graduation, a ten year writing hiatus followed, during which Emma distracted herself with becoming a Web site information architect, dabbling with being a designer dressmaker and working for a magazine publisher. She even went to such lengths as becoming a psychology teacher in central London for four years, in the madness of convincing herself that she wasn’t a writer. Ironically, it was during this time she wrote Twenty Years Later, cramming chapters in between teaching classes and on the commutes in and out of the great city.

Emma now lives in Somerset with her husband, her son and her books, where all are loved dearly. She runs her own copywriting business and a free short story club on her blog Post-Apocalyptic Publishing. Nowadays, Emma knows better than to avoid writing, otherwise it gets angry and comes looking for her.