Emily Jon Tobias is an American author and poet. She is an award-winning writer whose work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, along with other honorable mentions, and has been featured in various literary journals and magazines. Her debut collection MONARCH: STORIES (Black Lawrence Press, 2024) won the American Book Fest International Book Award and an International Impact Book Award. The collection was further selected as a 2024 finalist in the American Book Fest Fiction Awards, a distinguished favorite in the NYC Big Book Award, second place winner in the Story Monsters Royal Dragonfly Award, a silver medal winner in the Reader Views Literary Awards, a finalist in the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, third place winner in the 2025 Feathered Quill Book Awards Program, and received an honorable mention in the Eric Hoffer Award for a short story collection. Currently, Emily is a proud mentor in the PEN Prison Writing Mentorship Program. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Pacific University Oregon. Midwestern-raised, she now lives and writes on the coast of Southern California.