E.M. Spairow graduated from the American Film Institute Conservatory where she was awarded the Philip and Patricia Barry Memorial Scholarship for Excellence in Screenwriting. That same year her short script, Hooked, won the 2010 Unlikely Hero Productions Screenplay Competition. In 2011, her feature thriller, Manifest, won the Waterfront Film Festival Screenplay Competition. During her time as writer-in-residence at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, NM, she completed several short stories and her first stage play. As Spairow’s award-winning short films, Default and Elephant In The Room, complete their festival run, she begins work on her debut novel.