Emily Haworth-Booth studied English Literature at Cambridge University. Since graduating she has worked at a cosmetic surgery hospital, a bar and a racecourse in London, a fine art print studio in New Jersey, a textile workshop in Philadelphia, graphic design studios in New York and London, and accidentally did two years national service in the NHS along the way.

Emily has flukily won a bizarre array of awards including the Young National Poetry Competition in 1998 and was runner-up in the Jonathan Cape/Observer Graphic Short Story Prize 2008. In 2007 she was also a winner of a Warner Comedy Box Star-Search Competition and a finalist in the Funny Women Competition which meant she got to talk about her bum in front of 400 people at the Comedy Store in London. That was the best thing she had ever done until she started being an environmental activist with Climate Rush and discovered that gatecrashing coal awards ceremonies at five-star hotels and blockading Westminster Bridge in stripy bloomers was even more fun.

Emily lives in South East London with her husband and Bertie the greyhound. She has stopped flying back and forth to America since she found out that every time you do, 11,000 human babies irrevocably die. She is working on her first graphic novel which is about this and some other stuff.

She teaches a ten week course called Drawing the Graphic Novel at The Prince's Drawing School on Tuesday evenings, and a continuing course, Drawing the Graphic Novel 2, on Thursday evenings. You can read more by clicking here.