Emma Neale (born 2 January 1969) is a novelist and poet from New Zealand.

Neale was born in Dunedin and grew up in Christchurch, San Diego, and Wellington.

[2] Neale's first work was published in 1998 and her writing has been featured extensively in magazines, newspapers and journals, and several anthologies.

[4] Neale's work has been awarded and nominated for several literary prizes including: In 2012, she was awarded the Robert Burns Fellowship, a literary residency at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.

[7] She has also been awarded the Todd/Creative New Zealand New Writers Bursary (2000), the Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship (2014), and was a University of Otago/Sir James Wallace Pah Homestead Fellow.