Emma Hart

Emma Hart is a freelance writer, columnist, and novelist who lives in Christchurch, New Zealand, raising teenagers and – less successfully – cats. She will, on the slightest provocation, tell you everything you want to know about LGBT rights, kink activism, and enthusiastic consent. After a martini, she’ll also tell you everything you didn’t want to know, and there’s no real way to stop her. Despite being a born and bred Kiwi, Emma’s passions are very English: gin, gardening, BDSM, cricket, and the Oxford comma.

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Christchurch

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Bodies

In this short story, a well-off woman picks up a young, dangerous-looking hitch-hiker, and neither is quite what they seem. According to Harriet Allan of Penguin Random House, "The author is masterful at using the two different narrative perspectives. By using only their voices, their ignorance of the other's intentions fuels our own uncertainty and curiosity." Winner of the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition 2015.

Not Safe for Work

A collection of new material and previously published columns from Up Front at Public Address. "Smart and funny and original. Talented as all fuck." - Steve Braunias

The Isis Knot

A self-published online novel examining issues of justice, abuse, and the things we will do to belong.