Emily Barroso

Emily's first book, After the Rains, 2011, won a Jerwood/Arvon first novel award and her subsequent two books are set in Wales. Her plays, The Call, 2015 and Enslaved, 2017 have been staged at Unveiling Festival in London and Hiraeth Arts Festival in Wales.
She wrote and taught courses in art & writing in London and leads retreats and workshops in Wales and across the UK. A top UK/USA book coach, she coaches online and in person. A former publisher, she is a book developmental editor/book doctor with over 25 years of experience as well as a teacher of the arts. She has a BA in English Literature, an MA in Creative Writing and is the founder, producer and director of the Hiraeth Arts Festival in Wales and her film about Burmese Dissident Writers was shown at English PEN. Emily is also a ghostwriter and has taken many authors from idea to publication.