Emma Hewitt is a UK-born, Canada-raised writer living between London and New York. Her debut novel, Rooster, comes after a career spent telling stories on screen and on stage. She writes Plus One, a Substack about visibility, identity and life adjacent to fame, currently in development for TV. Before fiction, she made documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, ITV and PBS. Earlier still, she worked as an actress with the National Theatre, the Old Vic, the BBC and ITV. She spent many years raising her two daughters, travelling as a family around the world - part adventure, part logistics, part improvised caravan - an experience that continues to shape the way she writes about love, mess and keeping it together.