Emma Hardy Emma Hardy is an Australian writer based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her writing has been published in Guernica, The Monthly, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Lifted Brow, Voiceworks and Going Down winging. 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. 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. Read More Read Less