Emma John is an award-winning author and a contributing writer at Afar. Her first book, Following On: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession and Terrible Cricket, was named the 2017 Wisden Book of the Year. For the next six months, Emma will be travelling around the USA as Foggy Mountain Gal, a British violin player on a quest to learn all there is to know about bluegrass and the American South. You can follow her musical adventure on her blog at www.foggymountaingal.com and visit her instagram page at @foggymountaingal