Emma-Jane Barlow (known as EJ) is a best-selling Manchester-based author, poet, copywriter, content creator, songwriter, singer and creative. She has been writing poetry for over twenty years and finds comfort in writing about her life experiences.

​Emma-Jane has performed at several events including Poetry at the Park, Mic at the Mill, Natter, Salford Arts Theatre and Switchblade. She has been featured in multiple anthologies including Blue Rose, Our Minds: Our Future, Chapters of Venus, Unchaining Freedom Trilogy and Ey Up: A Northern Anthology. EJ shares her artistic journey on her Instagram page @emmajanepoetry and is also the founder of the successful collaborative poetry project First Line Poets @firstlinepoets.

​In 2020, she self-published her debut book Darkness & Light, which became a multiple bestseller on Amazon, including the top 20 bestselling books for British poetry. She has just released her highly-anticipated second collection of poetry, Sins & Sunflowers with Bent Key Publishing, it can be bought directly through bentkeypublishing.co.uk or Waterstones. She has also just released The First Line Poets Anthology, which is a collection of 260 poems by 120 poets from across the globe that are part of her project The First Line Poets.