Emma Ashmere
Emma Ashmere was born in Adelaide, South Australia. Her short stories have been widely published including in The Age, Griffith Review, Overland, Review of Australian Fiction, Sleepers Almanac, #8WordStory, NGVmagazine, and the Commonwealth Writers literary magazine adda. She was shortlisted for the 2019 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Award, 2019 Newcastle Short Story Award, 2018 Overland NUW Fair Australia Prize, and the 2001 Age Short Story Competition.
Emma has worked as a researcher, tutor, bookseller – and as a cook on film sets, an isolated cattle station, Sydney cafés, London pubs, and an art school in the south of France. She has a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide, a PhD on the use of marginalised histories in fiction from La Trobe University Melbourne, and is a recipient of the QWC/Olvar Wood award. She lives in northern New South Wales.
