Emma Rennison is a British-Australian author and mother to two children diagnosed with multiple epiphyseal dysplasia and scoliosis. She has one bionic hip and another soon to be replaced.

After studying English and Media at university she fulfilled her need to write through a career in communications where she specialised in forestry and conservation issues. During this time she ran campaigns about rare birds, forest fires and - the most controversial of all subjects - dog poo.

She hung up her wellies to move from the UK to Melbourne in 2008 where she now resides.

As part of the SBS Voices Emerging Writers’ Competition Emma had her first memoir piece published, which discusses her family’s experiences of disability. She has also been shortlisted in the City of Melbourne Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards, in the Self-told Stories of Writers Living with a Disability category, along with the Newcastle Short Story Award, and the Jennifer Burbidge Prize. She’s had short fiction and memoirs published in a variety of anthologies and online, including two Writers Victoria Writeability collections.

In 2022, Emma was awarded a Writers Victoria Writeability Fellowship to support writers with disabilities. The Fellowship allowed her to be mentored by Myfanwy Jones to help develop her first novel, No Guts, No Glory.