Emma Shaw Colcleugh (née , Shaw; September 3, 1846 – January 29, 1940) was an American author who lectured, traveled, and collected artifacts. Starting in 1895, she was a book reviewer and edited a department in The Providence Journal. She was a frequent contributor to the Boston Evening Transcript as well as several other prominent papers, her writings having attracted widespread attention. Her travel writing was sponsored by New England newspapers, which published her reports. Also a poet, her first poem was "New Year's Eve". Colcleugh was also the author of "World Wide Wisdom Words", a yearbook of proverbs.