Emma Gannon

Emma Gannon is the Sunday Times bestselling author of 8 books and currently a judge for the prestigious 2025 Women’s Prize. Between 2016-2023 she hosted Ctrl Alt Delete, one of the first UK career podcasts with a female host. It was nominated for a Webby award and garnered 13 million downloads to date.

Emma now focuses on writing books & The Hyphen newsletter—one of the most popular Substack newsletters in the UK—read by 70,000 people in 181 countries, delivering weekly emails on wellbeing, creativity, travel, and culture. Her second novel TABLE FOR ONE is out now.

​Emma is currently "one of the most popular UK novelist​s on Substack" ​according to The Bookseller magazine—and The Times recently called Emma “something of a pioneer” with her early business-focused podcast and on Substack.