
Emma Musty
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Emma Musty is a writer who grew up in the wild beauty of Dumfries and Galloway but these days finds herself most often in the city of Athens, Greece. It was while on a residency at Cove Park that she first heard from Lauren Parsons of Legend Press who would go on to become her publisher.
Her debut novel, The Exile and The Mapmaker, was longlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award. Her second, The Bones of Barry Knight was nominated for the Dublin Literary Award. She’s currently finishing her third novel, The Things we do to Forget, for which she received an Authors’ Foundation K Blundell Trust Grant and which was shortlisted for the 2024 Retreat West Opening Lines Competition.
Prior to publication, The Exile and the Mapmaker was longlisted in the Mslexia and Cinnamon Press Novel Awards. She gained her PhD in 2016 from Aberystwyth University. During the last 8 years, she has initiated and contributed to numerous projects which work alongside people on the move in Europe. She also writes short stories, human rights reports, articles and chapters on migration and mobility.
‘At Cove Park, I will be working on the first draft of my next novel, History of a Riot – reading, writing and taking inspiration from the changing light over Loch Long.’