Emily Perkins is an award-winning author, playwright and screenwriter, originally from New Zealand. Her screenwriting credits include an episode of the acclaimed drama AFTER THE PARTY (Channel 4//ITV Studios/TVNZ), nominated for the Rose D’Or 2024. She also co-wrote the feature film adaptation of THE REHARSAL, from Eleanor Catton’s novel.

For the stage she has adapted Henrik Ibsen’s A DOLL’S HOUSE and written the original play THE MADE, both for Auckland Theatre Company.

Her novels include Lioness (which is in development for a major TV series with Made Up Stories), The Forrests (longlisted for the Women’s Prize UK), Novel About My Wife, and Leave Before You Go. In 2017 she was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature. Awards include the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, the Montana Book of the Year Award (NZ), the Believer Book of the Year (US), and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (UK).