Emma Hardy is an Australian writer based in Naarm/Melbourne.

Her first book, PERIODIC BITCH, is forthcoming with Allen & Unwin. You can pre-order it at your favourite bookstore. (Readings will ship outside Australia/New Zealand for our international friends).

Emma’s writing has been published in Guernica, The Monthly, Los Angeles Review of Books, Lifted Brow, Voiceworks and Going Down Swinging. She spent three years living and writing in Nevada, where she was an MFA candidate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She taught university-level English and creative writing and was the nonfiction editor at Witness Magazine.

Emma lives with premenstrual dysphoric disorder, which is the topic of her debut book, PERIODIC BITCH. She often writes about women, animals, madness and the lines between.

contact: emma [at] emmahardy [dot] me