Emma is a British-born Hong Kong-Chinese writer and editor. She is the author of When Sleeping Women Wake and contributes to Mekong Review, The Hong Kong Review, Being Asian Australian, HerCanberra, Aniko Press and Books + Publishing.

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In 2023, Book People and Penguin Random House Australia nominated her as Bookseller of the Year. That same year, her manuscript, Chasing Echoes in the Rain, was shortlisted for the Allen & Unwin Voices from the Intersection Mentorship Programme. 

Emma is the founder of yinfluence editorial, an agency specialising in fiction editing and proofreading for writers.

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