hey,

A young woman with black hair, wearing a black shirt and beige pants, sitting next to a stack of books, resting her face in her hand, looking thoughtfully at her reflection in a mirror.

Emma Pei Yin is an Australian-Chinese writer and editor. Her debut novel, When Sleeping Women Wake, has been published globally, translated into multiple languages and was longlisted for the ARA Historical Novel Prize (2025).

She is also the founder of yinfluence editorial, an agency that works with PoC, queer and neurodivergent writers, connecting them with editors and mentors who understand the stakes of telling stories from the margins.

She has been featured in The Canberra Times, The Australian, Mekong Review, Being Asian Australian, The Hong Kong Review, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar & more.

Emma is working on her second novel with her extremely barky dachshund, lady, by her side.

A woman working at a wooden dining table in a sunlit room, holding a dog, with open books, papers, and a laptop. There are vertical blinds on the window and a decorative "welcome home" sign on the wall.
A woman sitting at a wooden table with her arms crossed, smiling, next to a golden retriever dog standing on papers on the table, with a wall hanging that says 'We love at HOME' in the background.

lady,

the sausage dog

lady loves books

she loves to chew them

she loves to shred them to pieces

to follow lady’s journey of destructive behaviour, visit

@ladythedox