Emily is a Nottinghamshire native currently residing in London and has been a writer and journalist for almost seven years. She started her career as a local news reporter writing about the issues impacting underrepresented communities in Lincolnshire and now currently works as a news and investigations reporter for MoneySavingExpert.com; having won several awards, including Headline Money's Rising Star of the Year, for her investigative work.

Despite always having a deep love for theatre and creative writing, Emily only turned her hand to playwriting last year and was selected to be part of this year's Fifth Word Playwrights cohort. She hopes to finish her first play 'What If...', a comedy-drama about a young woman who uses maladaptive daydreaming as a way to cope with her OCD, with the guidance of the Fifth Word group this year.