Emma Cline

Emma Cline is an American writer, born in 1989 in Sonoma County, California. She studied at Middlebury College and earned an MFA from Columbia University. Her debut novel The Girls (2016), inspired by the Manson Family, was an international bestseller and won the Shirley Jackson Award. She followed it with the story collection Daddy (2020) and the novel The Guest (2023). Her third novel, Switzy, is due in September 2026 and has been longlisted for the Booker Prize. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta and The Paris Review.