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

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 has recently returned from 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.

contact: emma [at] emmahardy [dot] me