Emma Grae is a Scottish author and journalist from Glasgow. She is a passionate advocate of the Scots language and breaking the stigma around mental illness. She has published fiction and poetry in the UK and Ireland since 2014 in journals including The Honest Ulsterman, From Glasgow to Saturn and The Open Mouse. Her debut novel, Be guid tae yer Mammy, was published by Unbound in August 2021.

As a journalist, she writes under her birth surname, Guinness, and has bylines in a number of publications including Cosmopolitan, the Huffington Post and the Metro.

Emma was recently awarded for her debut novel Be guid tae yer Mammy Scots Book of the Year at the Scots Language Awards 2022. Be guid tae yer Mammy was also shortlisted for the 2022 Fiction Saltire Award.

Her second novel, The Tongue She Speaks, was published by Luath Press in October 2022 and she is currently working on her third book.