Emma Cowing is an award-winning journalist and author. Her debut novel The Show Woman was published by Hodder & Stoughton in May 2025 and named one of the top ten debuts of the year by Stylist, and one of the best Scottish literary debuts of 2025 by The Scotsman. It was recently longlisted for the 2026 Historical Writers’ Association Debut Crown award. Her second novel, The Pleasure Palace, an historical thriller set in the Edwardian era, will be published in January 2027.

Emma has written for a wide number of publications including The Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, Guardian Weekend Magazine, The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and the Scottish Daily Mail. She is a former Feature Writer of the Year at the Scottish Press Awards, and two-time Interviewer of the Year. She holds an Ochberg Fellowship in Journalism and Trauma at Columbia Journalism School in New York, for her work covering the war in Afghanistan, and its aftermath.

Emma lives in Glasgow, Scotland, with her husband Jonathan and their cat, Moses.