Emily J. Gómez is originally from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She earned a B.A. in Fine Arts with a concentration in photography from Loyola University Chicago, and an MFA with Distinction from the University of Georgia. She served as the staff photographer for a Metropolitan Detroit Newspaper, the Spinal Column Newsweekly, for five years and as the Professor of Photography at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia for fifteen. Currently, she is co-owner, with her husband Ernesto, of East Twin Studios, LLC in Lewiston, Michigan.

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. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Zuckerman Museum of Art in Kennesaw, Georgia.