Emma F. Payne writes about love and loss, sexuality, trauma, and human experience. She enjoys writing, creating art, and spending quality time with her two cats and wife in her spare time. Her artistic expression began at a young age and continued to grow as she did. While studying at college, she battled with self-awareness and self-expression and explored who she wanted to be outside her conservative hometown. Struggling with coping with trauma and addiction, she found writing to be an escape. She decided that she no longer wanted to live for others and instead live for herself, deciding to move forward with publishing her first poetry collection, Thursdays with You.