Emer Martin is a Dubliner who has lived in Paris, London, the Middle East and the USA. Her first novel, Breakfast in Babylon, won Listowel Book of the Year in 1996. More Bread or I'll Appear, her second, was published internationally in 1999. Her third novel, Baby Zero, was published in the UK and Ireland in 2007, and in the USA in 2014. She has worked as a theatre producer and publisher, founding the publishing cooperative Rawmeash in 2014. She was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000. She now lives between California and Co. Meath in Ireland.