Emma Claire Sweeney

Emma Claire Sweeney is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at The Open University. She has been Writer in Residence at Mencap and co-directs The Ruppin Agency Writers’ Studio.
Emma’s novel, Owl Song at Dawn, won Nudge Book of te Year (Literary Category), and her group biography, A Secret Sisterhood: The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Brontë, Eliot and Woolf, co-written with Emily Midorikawa, was praised by Margaret Atwood for having “done much service to literary history.” Emma has received awards from the Society of Authors, Arts Council, and Royal Literary Fund, and has written for publications including The Paris Review, TIME, and The Washington Post.