Emily J. Gómez is originally from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She earned her B.A. in Fine Arts with a concentration in photography from Loyola University Chicago, and her MFA with Distinction from the University of Georgia. She is a professor of photography at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia. Her interests lie in finding awe-inspiring landscapes, often while contemplating their complicated histories of human habitation. Among her accomplishments are a National Endowment for the Arts Grant for a Distinguished Fellowship at the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, and published photographs in the books Platinum and Palladium Photographs: Technical History, Connoisseurship, and Preservation, as well as Platinotype: Making Photographs in Platinum and Palladium with the Contemporary Printing-Out Process by Pradip Malde with Mike Ware.