Emma Alvarez Gibson writes about the things we agree not to notice — and the ones we decide are the whole truth. The small moments that decide a life. The big ones that break it open. The stories we inherit and the ones we take back.

Her writing has appeared in print and online. She is currently finishing her debut novel, a multigenerational story set in Los Angeles about inheritance, survival, and what you do with the life at the end of a very long line.

She grew up in Southern California, bilingual and between worlds—learning English and Spanish simultaneously and navigating the particular oddities of belonging fully to neither. She has worked across an improbable range of industries. Before joining the nonprofit world, she owned and operated Crow Haus, a boutique branding studio.

She lives in the South Bay with her husband, their son, and a large wild backyard full of birds, dogs, herbs, and fruit trees. She hunts for fragrances that work like doorways into other worlds. She has dreamt of mansions her entire life, and some of her dreams turn out to be dispatches.