Emma Sweeney

Emma Sweeney has an undergraduate degree in English from St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge University and a postgraduate degree in creative writing from the University of East Anglia. Her teaching and writing career has taken her as far a field as South East Asia, Japan and India. She is Head of Creative Writing and Director of Professional Tutoring at New York University in London and also teaches at Cambridge University, the Open University and Foundation for International Education. Emma has won various prizes for her own writing, including an Arts Council award, a Royal Literary Fund bursary and writer’s residencies in Barcelona, Dublin and Cambridge.