Emma Neale has published four novels and three collections of poetry.
She has also acted as selecting editor for three anthologies: Creative Juices (HarperCollins, 2001), Best New Zealand Poems 2004 and Swings and Roundabouts: Poems on Parenthood (Godwit, 2007).
She is a past recipient of the Creative New Zealand/Todd New Writers' Bursary, and in 2008 was the recipient of the inaugural Janet Frame/New Zealand Society of Authors Memorial Award.
Her poetry has appeared in UK, Australian and New Zealand periodicals, and extracts of her work have appeared in North American literary publications such as Bat City Review, the Harvard Review, and the website Poetry Daily.
Until recently Emma was senior editor for the independent publisher, Longacre Press, where she worked for nine years, editing books by authors such as Bernard Beckett, Kate De Goldi, Penelope Todd, James Norcliffe, Anna Mackenzie, Neville Peat, Lynley Hood and Ted Dawe.
She teaches creative writing at the University of Otago and is currently the poetry editor for the Otago Daily Times.
Emma has a PhD from University College, London, and has reviewed for various UK and New Zealand literary journals, ranging from the Times Literary Supplement to the New Zealand Listener.
Emma lives in Dunedin with her husband and young family, with a view of Anderson's Bay Inlet, where spoonbills wade and sea lions occasionally come to dance.