Emma Cairns Watson (she/her) is a fiction writer from California and graduate of the MFA at UC Irvine. A finalist for the Iowa Review Award in Fiction and the Sewanee Review Fiction Contest, her work has received support from the Olympic Valley Community of Writers and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and appeared in journals including Fairy Tale Review, EPOCH, and One Story.

She’s at work on a short story collection and a first novel.