Emily Forney is, as she likes to say, a professional fangirl. From the early days of crafting fiction prompts on Tumblr to writing miniseries on how to write a successful fantasy battle scene, she fell in love with the minor details of storytelling. After receiving her MFA in Creative Writing, emphasizing in commercial and upmarket fiction, she worked in editorial roles for both digital and print until she realized she wanted to stay with her favorite authors throughout their careers. She was named a 2022 Publisher's Weekly Star Watch honoree and was previously a publishing and editorial fellow for the LA Review of Books, where she trained with her editorial background to shift into agenting and find new, progressive voices.

Emily bounces between Phoenix and Charleston, getting swept up in beach reads and epic eight-part fantasies on the daily. In another life, she was a historian, where she got a history degree after watching National Treasure one too many times, and now uses her four years of studies to impress tourists during bar trivia. A dedicated romantic, Emily is often on road trips, in flea markets, or sitting on benches with local curmudgeons and trying to convince them to tell their life stories.

Her list includes bestsellers, award winners, and books that inspire fandoms. Her tastes are wide ranging, but for the most part she looks for books with high concept commercial hooks, timeless stories with complex characters, escapist tales, and big, sweeping worlds.