Welcome to Emily's website!

Hugo-Award winning author Emily Pohl-Weary has been called "mistress of the empty girls" and "an unconventional and modern day hero to many young female writers."

Her books include young adult mystery Strange Times at Western High; ghost love story A Girl Like Sugar; and memoirs of science fiction writer Judith Merril, Better to Have Loved. She wrote the four-issue comic Violet Miranda: Girl Pirate (illustrated by Willow Dawson) and edited acclaimed female superhero anthology Girls Who Bite Back. She's former co-editor of Broken Pencil magazine and publisher of literary conga line Kiss Machine magazine.

She's done readings across North America and led workshops for schools, libraries, community agencies, youth shelters, and men in transition (through Na-Me-Res's Sagatay residence). In 2008, Pohl-Weary founded the Parkdale Street Writers for at-risk youth in the neigbourhood where she grew up.

More recently, she has been making the shift into writing for film, and her feature screenplay received financing from Astral Media through its Greenberg Fund.

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