Emma is a Sydney-based writer, columnist and comedian. Her incredibly popular Marky Ponders column in Cosmopolitan magazine is now 8-years strong and syndicated to several countries around the world, while her humorous Now Try This! column in body&soul magazine has been running in seven national weekend newspapers including The Sunday Telegraph and Herald Sun monthly since 2015. She has also written columns for Sunday Style, Grazia, OK! and many more. She also regularly writes for many of the country's biggest titles including Vogue, Marie Claire, Women's Weekly, Woman's Day, InStyle, Shop Til You Drop and more, as well as on her own lifestyle blog markyknowsbest.com. Emma is also an accomplished stand-up comedian, having performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival and Sydney Comedy Festival. Her role as one of the key cast in the Logie-nominated SBS docu-series Comedy School in 2010 saw her awarded 'rising star' in Cosmopolitan's Women of The Year Awards, while her web-based travel series Beauty & The Backpacker, which she co-hosts with travel columnist Ben Groundwater, runs across the Fairfax network worldwide.