Emma Hardy is an Australian writer and creative working in Las Vegas.

Her writing has been published in Guernica, The Monthly, Los Angeles Review of Books, Lifted Brow, Voiceworks and Going Down Swinging. She was the 2019 Fitzpatrick Award winner for creative nonfiction and a finalist in the 2019 Swinburne Microfiction Competition. In 2020 she won the Mary River Press Services Short Story Prize.

She’s currently an MFA candidate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the nonfiction editor at Witness Magazine.

contact: emma [at] emmahardy [dot] me