Emmy Laybourne is a novelist, screenwriter and former character actress. She is the internationally bestselling author of six award-winning young adult novels: the "Monument 14" trilogy, "Sweet", and "Berserker" and "Ransacker". Several of these properties are now being developed for TV/Film.

Before her life as an author, Emmy performed original comedy on Comedy Central, MTV, and VH1; and acted in the movies "Superstar," "The In-Laws" and "Nancy Drew," among others.

Emmy is the daughter of cable pioneer Gerry Laybourne and TV producer Kit Laybourne and the sister to EP Sam Laybourne. Emmy is famous with Comedy Central die-hard fans for a song she wrote and performed with Sam called, "We Can't Make Love Because We're Related."

Emmy is represented by literary agent Susanna Einstein of Einstein Literary Management and Kim Stenton at Myman Greenspan.