Rassi Narika Author

Rassi Narika has been writing since she was a child. She worked as a creative writer for Tulisan in 2011, where she fell in love with the combination of writing and illustration. While studying at Goldsmiths, University of London, she started to explore this combination, and she wrote and illustrated her first picture book when she co-founded Seumpama. When It Rains is her second picture book. Rassi now lives in Jakarta, in a little house which feels very cosy even when it’s raining outside. 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. Emma Dai'an Wright (1986) is a British-Chinese-Vietnamese publisher and illustrator. She worked in ebook production at Orion Publishing Group before leaving in 2012 to set up The Emma Press with the support of the Prince's Trust. She has since published over 500 writers across more than 70 books, including poetry anthologies for adults and children, short stories, and translations. In 2016 The Emma Press won the Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlet Publishers. She lives in Birmingham.