Emma Danes has won the Hamish Canham Prize and the Poetry Society Stanza Poetry Competition, and has been Showcase Poet in an edition of Magma.

Her poems have been published in anthologies and magazines, including The Best British and Irish Poets 2017 (Eyewear), CAST: The Poetry Business Book of New Contemporary Poets (Smith/Doorstop), The Best British Poetry 2011 (Salt), Sylvia is Missing (Flarestack), Buzz (Templar), Magma, Poetry News, Poetry Wales, Smiths Knoll, The North and The Rialto. She lives in Ely with her family.

Emma was a winner in the 2012 Book & Pamphlet Competition, judged by Simon Armitage.