Emma Dakin
Emma Dakin is the pen name of Marion Crook. Marion researches her fiction as carefully as she researches her nonfiction, interviewing people who meet challenges, hardship, joy and excitement. She is an intrepid traveler from the rural community of Arctic Bay to the Appalachian hills of Kentucky, continually seeking new ideas from the people she meets. In addition to being a writer, she has been a rancher, a public health nurse, a researcher and a university teacher. An experienced speaker, Marion Crook, can inspire groups to have confidence in their own writing, as well as give readings and comments on her own work.