Emma Rayward is Doctor of Creative Arts graduate from the Writing Society and Research Centre of the University of Western Sydney. Her thesis is titled Urban Topological Novel (Completely Normal and Perfectly Regular). The thesis is an experiment in science fiction: a novel exploring topological concepts (connectedness, closeness, continuousness) as situated in a fictional nation-state (“Nation-Space”). The fiction works to literalise topology, a discipline utilised as a unique mode for thinking about structures of space. The accompanying exegesis explores various figurations of science fiction, what it means to read a text as science fiction, and how science fiction might be enacted otherwise through topology.

She was raised on Birpai land, and now lives and writes on Gadigal land.