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 including Santa Clara Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Big Muddy, Talking River Review, Peauxdunque Review, and elsewhere. In 2024, 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 chosen as a finalist in the American Book Fest Fiction Awards and honored as a distinguished favorite in the NYC Big Book Award for a short story collection in 2024. 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.