Hello!
I'm a London-based author and journalist. If I'm not tapping away at a keyboard, I'm probably taking something out of the oven. Or eating it.
My first novel No Such Thing As Perfect was published by Century in 2021. It’s a romantic comedy about love and technology, and whether there really is such a thing as a perfect match. It was shortlisted for the 2019 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize and the Spotlight First Novel Competition. My second novel, It’s Complicated, is out now, also with Century: it’s about families, fertility issues and first love. My short story ‘The Match Factory’ won The London Magazine Short Story Competition in 2016. I studied English at the University of Cambridge a very long time ago, Creative Writing at the University of Manchester slightly more recently, and Screenwriting at Curtis Brown Creative after that.
As a journalist I mostly cover food and travel, but I’ve also written about everything from relationship advice on Reddit to romantic comedies, psychedelic therapy and what the future holds for dating apps. I've written for the Guardian, Time Out, Waitrose Food, Country Life, the Telegraph, Wired, ES, Grazia, British Vogue, Condé Nast Traveller and lots of other places. I also review both fiction and non-fiction for Waitrose Weekend, and am Country Life’s London restaurant columnist. You can read some of my work here, and have a look at my photography here.
I'm on Instagram as @emmahughes86; follow me for pictures of cakes, books and other people’s pets.
Photograph by Clara Molden