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 a writer and literary advocate. Her internationally published debut novel, When Sleeping Women Wake, won the 2026 Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction, was shortlisted for the HWA Debut Crown, ACT Book of the Year and ACT Literary Awards, and longlisted for the ARA Historical Novel Prize. It was also named one of China Books Review’s ‘Best China Books of 2025’ and has been translated into multiple languages.

Emma is the founder of yinfluence, an agency supporting PoC, queer and neurodivergent writers by connecting them with editors and mentors who understand the stakes of telling stories from the margins.

She is an Author Advocate for Room to Read and an Ambassador for Chapters for Change.

She is currently working on her second novel with her extremely barky dachshund, Lady, by her side.

Her second novel, Dust Upon Fallen Leaves, will be published July 2027.

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