Emily Ansara Baines is the author of two cookbooks: The Unofficial Hunger Games Cookbook and The Unofficial Downton Abbey Cookbook. She has also worked as a professional baker and caterer throughout the East Coast, most recently in New York City.
She he graduated with honors from the University of Southern California where she studied creative writing under Aimee Bender and T.C. Boyle. Her short stories have appeared in Narrative literary magazine and AngeLingo.
When Emily isn't busy writing, baking, or trying to learn French, she's watching her favorite series, Downton Abbey, in hopes of one day being as elegant as the ladies of Downton. One day Emily will live in Paris and speak French while wearing a beret, but these days she makes do with navigating the streets of Los Angeles. Her favorite word is murmur.