About Emily

Emily Woodall is a writer, a self-proclaimed “word nerd,” and an indie publisher. Emily may not have been born in Florida, but she moved there in 1986 when she was four years old after her dad got orders to Naval Air Station, Jacksonville.  She has been a Floridian through and through ever since. She read The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank during her elementary school years in Middleburg, Florida. As she got older, she fell in love with Hemmingway, Hiaasen, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, and Zora Neale Hurston. She launched Yellow Bird Publishing in 2023. She is a “Free Little Library” enthusiast, an animal lover, and a hot tea connoisseur. She lives in Jacksonville, Florida, with her husband, their three children, and a very silly Chesapeake Bay Retriever named Remy.