About

Emily Tsokos Purtill is a Western Australian writer of Greek heritage. Her father's family was from the island of Evia. Her mother's family was from Kastellorizo and Rhodes.

Emily lives in Perth/Boorloo, in Western Australia, on the lands of the Whadjuk Nyoongar people. She has also lived in Shrewsbury, London, Vancouver, Paris and New York. Emily studied at the University of Western Australia and the University of British Columbia, Canada and worked as a lawyer in Perth and Paris.

Emily's essays, fiction and poetry have been awarded and published in anthologies and journals in Australia and the United States. She has had short fiction published in Westerly, Griffith Review and Science Write Now. Emily is a 2024 winner of the Griffith Review Emerging Voices Competition for her essay, Know Thyself, a meditation on genetic inheritance and mythology.

Emily's debut novel Matia (UWA Publishing) was released in October 2024 and won the 2025 Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for an Emerging Writer.