Emma Woolf is a writer, journalist and broadcaster. Born in London, she studied English at Oxford University. She worked in psychology publishing before going freelance and becoming a columnist for The Times and Newsweek, TV presenter on Channel 4 and commentator across the BBC. She is a radio and arts critic in the UK and speaks internationally at literary festivals from Cheltenham to Mumbai.

Emma's non-fiction books have been translated around the world, including the bestselling An Apple a Day (2012), The Ministry of Thin (2013), Letting Go (2015), Positively Primal (2016) The A-Z of Eating Disorders (2017) and Wellbeing (2019).

Emma is the great-niece of Virginia Woolf.