Emma Crichton-Miller, born in London, worked for ten years as a television producer, making arts and science documentaries for the BBC and Channel Four.

Since 2002 she has worked as an arts journalist and writes currently for the Financial Times, the FT's How to Spend It Magazine, Prospect Magazine, and Apollo Magazine, where she produces a monthly column on the art market. She has written many catalogue essays, and her monographic essay on Edmund de Waal was published by Phaidon last year