About Us

Reda Gaudiamo is a writer from Jakarta, Indonesia, known for her 'Na Willa' stories. She is also known across Southeast Asia and Europe as a singer and musician through the AriReda duo. Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi Degoul is an Indonesian poet from Surabaya, currently based in Kyoto, Japan. Her debut pamphlet, "Ikhda by Ikhda", was published by the Emma Press in 2014. Her poems have been published in "Mildly Erotic Verse" and "The Emma Press Anthology of Motherhood". She is co-translator of several books from Indonesian into English, including "The Adventures of Na Willa" by Reda Gaudiamo. Philippa Barker works as an editor at 3dtotal Publishing, an independent publisher specializing in high-quality art books. When freelancing for the Emma Press, she edited Once Upon a Time in Birmingham: Women who dared to dream. She writes short fiction and prose-poetry, and has work published on Litro, Bare Fiction, and in Flash Fiction from the Worcestershire Literary Festival 2022.