Contributor

Emma Walton Hamilton

Author, Arts Educator, Producer

EMMA WALTON HAMILTON is a best-selling children’s book author, editor, producer and arts educator. With her mother, actress/author Julie Andrews, Emma has co-authored over thirty children’s books, seven of which have been on the NY Times Bestseller list, including "The Very Fairy Princess" series (#1 Bestseller), "Julie Andrews Collection of Poems, Songs and Lullabies," the "Dumpy the Dump Truck" series, "Simeon’s Gift," "The Great American Mousical," and "Thanks to You – Wisdom from Mother and Child." Emma’s own book, "RAISING BOOKWORMS: Getting Kids Reading for Pleasure and Empowerment," premiered as a #1 best-seller on Amazon.com in the literacy category and won a Parent's Choice Gold Medal. Her most recent project is as co-creator, writer and executive producer of "Julie's Greenroom," a children's television series about the arts created for Netflix in partnership with the Jim Henson Company. A faculty member of Stony Brook Southampton's MFA in Creative Writing and Literature, Emma teaches all forms of children’s book writing and serves as Director of the Children’s Literature Fellows program and the Executive Director of the Young Artists and Writers Project (YAWP), an interdisciplinary writing program for middle and high school students. A former actress and theatre director, Emma was a co-founder of Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, where she served as co-Artistic Director and Director of Education and Programming for Young Audiences for 17 years. Independently, Emma hosts the Just Write Children's Books self-paced, home-study courses in writing picture books, chapter books and middle grade and young adult novels. In addition, she is a Grammy Award-winning audiobook narrator and an accomplished public speaker, regularly addressing arts and literary conferences, schools, universities and other groups about the value of, and synergy between, the arts and literacy.