EMMACATHERWOOD

Emma is a fantasy writer originally from North Wales, now living in in the US. As a child she found escape in writing and designing books for her cousins birthdays. This led to a love of reading and art and a devouring of Ann Rice, Terry Pratchett, James Herbert and Neil Gaiman alongside anything the local library provided on mythology. Throughout life books, art and research have provided solace, making libraries devout places of worship.

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When not writing and reading Emma can be found outside,

 

"Wherever I am, I’m always in search of the same thing—a winding trail, a quiet hillside, a place where stories seem to linger in the air."

Her work is shaped by a lifelong fascination with history, art, and mythology—particularly the rich, haunting threads of Celtic lore. Having studied Art History and Literature at the Open University before completing a Master’s in Creative Writing, her imagination is grounded in both scholarship and storytelling craft.

Whether writing Middle Grade or Adult Fantasy, Emma returns again and again to the same enduring themes: Found family, the presence of magic in the everyday, the echoes of history, and the way art can hold both memory and myth. Her stories live at the crossroads of past and present, where the ordinary slips quietly into the extraordinary.