Emily graduated from Lausanne University in Switzerland and the Writing Programme of Vermont College, USA. She earned her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Her PhD is on literature and psychoanalysis. She lives in Geneva and writes poetry in English and in French. She also translates in these languages. She has read her poetry on BBC Radio Norfolk and her poems were published in the UK, USA, & in Geneva. She is a psychologist, a professional geographer, and an amateur astronomer. She's also London's Poetry Society Stanza representative in Geneva and a member of  www.lespoetesdelacite.ch

Emily's poem "Imago" was commended at the Cambridge Poetry Competition. "The Robin's Pulse" was published in Hunger Mountain, the literary magazine of Vermont College, USA. "The Little Blue Heron" was published in Offshoots, Geneva. French poems were published in Florilège genevois (edited by Slatkine), launched at the International Book Fair in Geneva in April 2009. In June 2009, "The Sibyl" was published in "Exchanges", the journal of the T. S. Eliot Society. "The Stags" was published  in the October-November issue of the London Magazine in 2011. "The Pilgrimage" in memoriam to R.R., was published on the Princeton Alumni Weekly website in the same year.

An article entitled “The Consciousness of the Writing Self in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot and Paul Valéry" was published in the T.S. Eliot Journal, UK, in 2010. Another article, “The Significance of the Objective Correlative and  T.S. Eliot’s Combined Personae in The Waste Land” is due to be published in the September issue of The London Magazine in 2012. She is currently writing another academic book on artistic perception and a new poetry manuscript. She is a member of the English P.E.N in London and P.E.N Suisse Romande in Geneva.