About

Constance Emmett was born in Brooklyn, New York, where her mother's family landed after leaving Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her newest release, Bound, is set in New York’s lower Hudson River Valley where she was raised near Nyack. Her Irish family’s stories inspired her Finding Their Way Home series: Heroine of Her Own Life and the sequel Everything Will Be All Right. Constance is at work on the third book in the series while planning a sequel to newly released Revolutionary War era Bound, based on an ancestor on her father’s side, Henry Emmett, an indentured servant brought to Philadelphia from England in 1775.

A working biologist for thirty years, she lives in rural Massachusetts with her wife and is a member of the Historical Novel Society UK, NA and Irish chapter, the Irish Writers Union, Irish Writers Centre and Straw Dog Writers Guild. Constance holds dual U.S. and Irish citizenship.

Constance will be speaking at the HNS Conference in August 2026. More information can be found here.