Emily Night

Emily Night grew up in a series of small towns in Mississippi. The youngest of four children in a family where money was tight, she enjoyed art and dreamed of being a writer from the moment she wrote her first story, a ghost story about a haunted go-cart, for an English assignment in the fourth grade. At the age of twelve, she rode her bike up to the square of a small town and asked the editor to publish one of her stories. While the editor did not, he was very kind and encouraging. Fortunately, she had a string of excellent teachers in the rural public schools that she attended. She graduated magna cum laude from Mississippi College with a BS in Business and later earned a Master's Degree from Belhaven University, where one of her professors asked if she had ever been published after she turned in a creative writing assignment. She prefers reading and writing fantasy because she believes that modern-day realism is just too limiting to what is actually possible while fantasy allows her to test those limits.

 

When she is not busy working, she enjoys drawing, painting, and watching scary movies.

 

When in Gnome is her first published novel.