About

Emma Brattin (who also publishes as Kelsi Jerene) has never been content to keep words on the page behaving themselves. With an MBA, an MFA in English and Creative Writing, and now as a PhD applicant, she has spent years studying not only how stories are built, but how they reach into a reader’s chest and tug on something unnameable.

Her debut poetry collection, Emotional Humidity (available in all formats on Amazon), proves she’s fluent in the language of raw feeling, while her thriller Heart Pins—her first and a strong seller on Amazon—demonstrates her flair for weaving suspense, love, and betrayal into a single thread strong enough to carry a reader from first page to last.

Her second thriller, A Man Too Soon, continues that exploration of tension, consequence, and what it means to be seen at the exact moment everything changes.

Alongside her work in suspense, she also writes early reader adventures following Calvin and Ruby, blending imagination, warmth, and a deep understanding of how young minds engage with story.

When she isn’t coaxing reluctant highschoolers to fall in love with literature or guiding college students through the pitfalls of persuasive prose, she’s chasing her own obsessions with narrative craft.

Brattin delights in creating prose that lingers—whether it’s a razor-sharp mystery hook or a poem that refuses to let you go quietly. She views words as instruments, capable of both symphonies and scalpel cuts, and she uses them accordingly: sometimes to dazzle, sometimes to wound, always to make you feel.

Her professional background is as eclectic as her writing—executive panels on cybersecurity one week, teaching Honors English the next—but through it all she’s been relentlessly honing the art of communication. She’s as comfortable designing a curriculum as she is dismantling a villain’s alibi. And if there’s a through-line to her career, it’s this: she believes in the transformative power of language, whether spoken in a classroom or whispered on a page.

Brattin hopes her stories will leave readers a little changed, a little haunted, and always hungry for more.