Dr. Emily Jones is an archaeologist and a professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico. She studies the connections between people, food, and the environment in prehistory, particularly in Southwest Europe. Her work has been published in Antiquity, Science, Quaternary Research, and many other journals, and she is the author of a nonfiction academic book, In Search of the Broad Spectrum Revolution in Paleolithic Southwest Europe. She has been a Fulbright scholar in Spain and a Chateaubriand Fellow in France. Nahia is her fiction debut. Emily enjoys baking, hiking, gardening, yoga, and beekeeping.