Emily Ballou

Emily Ballou is an Australian-American poet, novelist and screenwriter. Her poetry collection "The Darwin Poems", a verse portrait of Charles Darwin, was published by University of Western Australia Press in 2009. It was written as part of an Australia Council for the Arts residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in County Monaghan, Ireland.
Background.
Emily Ballou was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She studied Film and English at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, graduating with a Bachelor in Fine Arts with Honours and completed a Master of Letters in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She subsequently immigrated to Australia. She now lives in Glasgow, Scotland.
Career.
She wrote the "Anouk" and "Aisha" episodes of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television mini-series "The Slap", the original adaptation of Christos Tsiolkas’ novel of the same name, which won the 2012 AWGIE Awards for Television Mini-Series (Adaptation). It was aired in the UK on BBC4 and nominated for a Royal Television Society Award, a BAFTA award and an International Emmy Award.
Ballou has also written episodes of BBC One/FX "Taboo", Channel 4/AMC "Humans", BBC One's "Case Histories" (series 2, "Nobody's Darling"), ITV's "Scott & Bailey", National Geographic's TV movie "American Blackout", co-written with Ewan Morrison, and "Family", directed by Shaun Gladwell in the anthology film "The Turning", adapted from Tim Winton's book of short stories and screened in the Berlinale Special Galas section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.
She is also the author of the novels "Father Lands" (Picador, 2002), "Aphelion" (Picador, 2007) and the picture book "One Blue Sock" (with illustrations by Stephen Michael King) (Random House, 2007).