Emma Pusill

Emma is a writer and photographer with a particular interest in swimming outdoors and all the pleasures that affords despite, or perhaps because of, the challenges it brings. She firmly believes that you haven't lived until you've changed out of a wet swimming costume while trying to preserve your modesty with a too-small towel in the face of a Force 6 gale. She continues to take no pleasure whatsoever in encounters with jelly-fish, however.

She has also written for the Guardian and The Outdoor Swimming Society, contributed to the anthology Watermarks (edited by Tanya Shadrick), made guest contributions to a number of blogs, performed an original short story standing on the bottom of a derelict lido and received second prize in Jubilee Sea Pool's In The Swim poetry competition. The latter continues to flabbergast and delight her.

In recent years Emma has committed a considerable amount of time to advising and supporting outdoor pools under threat of closure or working towards restoration, and with Janet Wilkinson she organised a national lido conference to bring lido operators and enthusiasts together. They are working on plans for another such conference.

Emma can be contacted at emmapusill@gmail.com, and commissioning editors should know that she will write almost anything if it helps to keep her in pork pies.