Hi, I’m Emily.

I am a writer, an author, and a storyteller. 

I love to entertain with words. A voracious reader as a child, I grew up loving stories of all kinds. The stories my artist/author dad made up for me and my brother at bedtime. The Anne of Green Gables and Little House series my mom read to me. To this day there is nothing I love more than getting lost in the lives and adventures of a compelling cast of characters. 

Until a few years ago though, the stories I devoured were mentally bifurcated from my own enjoyment of using words to express, illustrate and entertain. In my mind, I was a wordsmith — I could spin a witty turn of phrase and write a convincingly on why it’s perfectly acceptable to get verklempt over Italian ribolita soup. In college I wrote research paper that made professors swoon. But I never considered myself a storyteller. Storytelling was for the wild and carefree. I am, at my very core, a creative Type A. 

But that all shifted one warm, summer evening. I was sitting in horrendous traffic, heading home from a job I loathed when the idea for my middle grade novel pirouetted into my head. When the economic downturn temporarily released me from my professional chains I used the break to dive into fiction writing and launch my freelance food writing career and blog, Tartufo. 

Though the demands of adulthood drew me back into the working fold, I have spent the last six years pushing myself and my writing forward. My literary dreams and goals have only grown since that fateful traffic-laden evening, and I can’t wait to share with you the stories I have to tell.