Scots language author & journalist
‘Emma Grae shows an acute understanding of the fault-lines in a dysfunctional family, and of how old resentments can escalate, pitting complex characters against each other with ease in a painfully raw debut’ – The Herald on Be Guid tae yer Mammy
‘A braw tale of friendship and loss’ – Glasgow Evening Times on The Hoolet Thit Couldnae Fly
My published books
About
EMMA GRAE is an author and journalist from Glasgow. She is a passionate advocate of the Scots language and breaking the stigma around mental illness. She has published fiction and poetry in the UK and Ireland since 2014 in journals including The HonestUlsterman, From Glasgow to Saturn and The Open Mouse. Her debut novel, Be Guidtae yer Mammy, published by Unbound in August 2021, was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Fiction Book of the Year Award 2022 and won the Scots Book of the Year at the Scots Language Awards 2022. Her second novel, The Tongue She Speaks, was published by Luath Press in October 2022.
Her first children’s book, The Hoolet Thit Couldnae Fly, was published in 2023 and shortlisted for Scots Bairns Book of the Year 2024. The Moggie Thit Meowed Too Much is her second children’s book.
As a journalist, she regularly writes about the Scots language for The National.