About The Emma Press

Emma Dai’an Wright

founding editor and publisher

Emma founded The Emma Press in 2012, after working in ebook production at Orion Publishing Group. These days, Emma edits, typesets and occasionally still designs covers. When she’s not working, Emma reads fantasy and watches sitcoms. Emma is of mixed heritage, which is important to her but complicated to explain; she would describe herself as British-Chinese-Vietnamese. She relocated from Birmingham to Riga in 2022. She/her.

Georgia Wall

director (maternity cover)

An avid reader of Emma’s newsletter, Georgia joined the press in response to a newsletter call-out in 2021 and is covering Emma’s maternity leave (Feb-November 2026). Georgia has worked as a bookseller, a nursery assistant and a postdoctoral researcher, pursuing her enthusiasm for reading in different ways. Adjacent to her TEP role, she is a translator from Italian, most recently of Susanna Bissoli’s novel Struck (2025, Linden Editions). She/her.

Gosia Weber

finance officer

Gosia makes sure all invoices are sent, royalties are paid and numbers add up at The Emma Press. She finds peace and relaxation in the universe of spreadsheets in perfect opposition to her otherwise chaotic working life. Gosia’s main occupation is as a designer/maker – she is the founder of nook – and she has been running her creative studio for almost two decades now. You can meet her at art markets all over the country selling colourful accessories made of reclaimed leather. She/her.

Former Emma Press Staff

Pema Monaghan, our previous e-Commerce Executive, now works for Penguin Random House. She’s featured in I Felt That (Ache Magazine, 2023) a collection of writing and art on gender and pain, and if that wasn’t enough, she has a short story pamphlet coming soon as part of a forthcoming series by Earthbound Press.

Christiana Jasutan, our previous Marketing Assistant, now works as a Publishing Specialist at Frontiers in Sustainability. She can still be found writing and crocheting in her spare time and her debut pamphlet, this is where I find the softest hurt, was published in 2023 by Fawn Press.

Lizzie Pearson-Hadley, who supported the press as our first Finance Officer (2022-2023), left the world of finance to pursue her dream of becoming a midwife.

Kyaice Hendricks our former Publishing Assistant took on a full-time Executive role at Oxford University Press in October 2023 and is now pursuing a PhD.

What are the main challenges we face?

Publishing is a weird old industry. Despite all the exciting, progressive things happening in the book world, the fundamental structures of publishing remain traditional and conservative. This makes it hard for small publishers run by not-rich people to survive (and hard for writers without connections to get noticed and find a platform). It means that we have to think about sales all the time, because sales are what keep us going – both directly, keeping cash flowing, and indirectly, because Arts Council England won’t fund an organisation that has no hope of supporting itself one day. 

However, we believe that the landscape of publishing is changing, in great part due to the effort small presses put into discovering new work, supporting emerging writers, and challenging established modes of production. We work with many different independent artists to produce our beautiful books, and do our best to contribute to a thriving arts ecosystem.

How can you help us?

If you like what we do and want us to keep doing it, please buy a book from us today, from our webshop or from your local indie bookshop. And tell everyone you know about us, and think of us when you’re next buying presents!

We have a gift subscription for young readers too: take a look at our brilliant little Bicki-Books! These are postcard-sized picture books (perfect for tiny hands) translated from Latvian for children, ages 3+. Truly wacky, exciting and fun, you can order the Bicki Books as a monthly subscription or as a bundle all at once!