Emma Sloley is a fiction writer, former travel writer, and the author of two novels, Disaster’s Children (published 2019 by Little A Books), and The Island of Last Things, forthcoming summer 2025 from Flatiron.

Her short fiction has been a finalist and short and long-listed for honors including The Missouri Review Editor's Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Disquiet International Literary Prize, the International Literary Seminar Fiction Contest, the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards, and the Bridport Prize.