Emma Cowing is an award-winning journalist and writer. Her debut novel, The Show Woman, about the first all-female circus act, was published in May 2025 by Hodder & Stoughton.

Emma is a former Feature Writer of the Year at the Scottish Press Awards, and two-time Interviewer of the Year. She holds an Ochberg Fellowship in Journalism and Trauma at Columbia Journalism School in New York, for her work covering the war in Afghanistan, and its aftermath.

She lives in Glasgow with her husband, Jonathan, and their enormously fluffy cat, Moses.