She is a 2015 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow, and a 2016 Felix Meyer Scholar.

Her debut novel Don’t Talk To Me Or My Son Ever Again is out April 2027 with Summit Books in Australia.

Her novella Something To Be Tiptoed Around, which was shortlisted for the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers in 2016, was released by Grattan Street Press in 2018.

Emma holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, where she teaches Creative Writing.

She is represented by Rebecca Slater at a4 Literary.