The Guardian’s “New Face of Fiction,” Emma Hooper is an author, musician and academic. Her best-selling debut Etta and Otto and Russell and James (2015) was published in 23 territories and 18 languages world-wide. Her second novel, Our Homesick Songs (2018) was long-listed for The Giller Prize. Her writing has garnered international praise from sources including The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, The Times of London, CBC, BBC, People Magazine, New Scientist, and The New Yorker, as well as starred reviews in Kirkus, Booklist, and Publishers Weekly. Other publications include work for McSweeney’s Quarterly, The Guardian, Bloomsbury Academic, and Elle Magazine.
Currently a reader in music and creative writing at Bath Spa University (UK), Hooper holds a Ph.D. in musico-literary studies and has published research in the fields of intermediality, gender studies, popular music, and retro-futurism. As a violist she has performed with Peter Gabriel, the Heavy, and numerous other artists, as well as released two albums (about dinosaurs and insects, respectively) as solo artist Waitress for the Bees.
Though she lives in the UK, she goes home to Canada to cross-country ski as often as possible.
