Emilia Ares is an Armenian-American author, actress, screenwriter, and producer. Her debut contemporary fiction novel, Love and Other Sins, explores themes of complex family dynamics, immigration, child abuse, trauma, and first love. The novel received the Wind Dancer Films Award and was a Bronze Medal winner at the Readers' Favorite Book Awards. Emilia adapted Love and Other Sins into a pilot screenplay, which was a Quarterfinalist in both the 2024 Outstanding Screenplays TV Pilot Competition and the Table Read My Screenplay – Cannes 2025 Competition. Her second novel, Love and Other Cages (2024), received critical acclaim from Kirkus Reviews, calling it “a heart-wrenching thriller with multiple twists,” and was featured in Publishers Weekly’s 50th Anniversary edition, where Booklife described it as “a sprawling romantic thriller—tense, surprising, and powered by grand surges of feeling.” Emilia continues her work as a writer and storyteller based in Los Angeles.