Emily Mackay

Emily Mackay, 43, is a Scottish writer and editor based in Hertfordshire, England. She has written about music for the Guardian, Uncut, NME and more, and is a news copy editor for the Guardian. In 2017, she wrote a volume in Bloomsbury’s 33 ⅓ series on classic albums, about Björk’s Homogenic. She has since edited several books in the series, as well as in the Manchester University Press series British Pop Archive, and contributed a chapter on Kenickie’s At the Club to 33 ⅓: The B-Sides. Her first published story, Tin Can Alley, appeared in the journal Riffs in 2021.