Emma Ashmere’s short stories have appeared in various publications including The Age , Griffith Review , Sleepers Almanac, Etchings  and Australian Women’s Book Review . She has a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide, and a PhD from La Trobe University in Melbourne on the use of marginalised histories in fiction. She has worked as a researcher on several books on Australian gardening history, and women and empire. She lives in northern New South Wales.