Emily Guest, DVM, grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, where she started taking riding lessons and was quickly hooked on horses. She studied biology at Sewanee: The University of the South, in Tennessee, before attending veterinary school at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. After graduation she completed an ambulatory internship at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. She is now an associate veterinarian at Tennessee Equine Hospital, in Thompson's Station. When not working she enjoys hiking and doing dog agility with her two Australian Shepherds.