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.

Her first published story, ‘No Guts, No Glory’, won the Editor’s Choice Award 2020 in the RWR Anthology - Short Stories of Science and Space.

She was the runner-up in The Jennifer Burbidge Prize 2021 with her short story ‘The Date’, and the Hunter Writers Centre featured ‘The Game’ in the 2021 Newcastle Short Story Anthology. She also had her first crime fiction accepted for publication in the 2022 RWR anthology, Meanwhile… Murder.

As part of the SBS Voices Emerging Writers’ Competition 2021, Emma also had her first memoir piece published, which discusses her family’s experiences of disability. She was also shortlisted in the City of Melbourne Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards 2022 in the brand new category - Self-told Stories of Writers Living with a Disability. In 2023, Emma’s short memoir ‘Smile’ was published in a Writeability anthology, Writing Up a Storm. A collection published by Writers Victoria showing the authors’ lived experience of disability.

Emma was selected as a Writers Victoria Writeability Fellow in 2022 and is currently working on her first novel.