Ms. Emma Sweeney
Emma Sweeney studied English at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge University and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Her teaching and writing career has taken her as far a field as South East Asia, Japan and India. As well as her position as Writer-in-Residence at NYU in London, she also runs creative writing programs at Cambridge University, the Open University and Foundation for International Education. Emma has won various prizes for her first novel, including an Arts Council Writer’s Award, a Royal Literary Fund Bursary, and writer’s residencies in Cambridge, Dublin and Barcelona. She is also an award-winning short story writer, recently being awarded a Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence fellowship as well as being shortlisted for both the prestigious International Fish Prize and the Asham Award (Britain’s foremost short story prize for women writers). Emma is currently working on her second novel and is represented by Greene and Heaton Literary Agency.