Emily Watts: Mormon Author

Emily Watts is a writer, editor, and humorist who focuses on the challenges of motherhood. She is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Watts graduated from the University of Utah. She has been an editor with Deseret Book Company for over thirty years. She is currently a senior editor. She has published several books, including Confessions of an Unbalanced Woman, The Slow-Ripening: Fruits of Mothering, I Hate It When Exercise is the Answer: A Fitness for the Soul, Take Two Chocolates and Call Me in the Morning: 12 Semi-Practical Solutions for the Really Busy Woman, and Being the Mom: 10 Coping Strategies I Learned by Accident Because I Had Children on Purpose.

She is a popular speaker at Deseret Book’s Time Out for Women and Brigham Young University Women’s Conference. She is a regular contributor to TOFW.com.

Emily and her husband, Larry, are the parents of five children and live in Taylorsville.