Emily Pohl-Weary
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| Emily Pohl-Weary | |
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| Born | 1973 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Writer, editor |
| Period | 2000–present |
| Genre | Biography, YA fiction, comics, science fiction |
| Notable works | Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril |
| Website | |
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Emily Pohl-Weary (born 1973)[1] is a Canadian novelist and magazine editor.[2] She is the granddaughter of science fiction writers and editors Judith Merril and Frederik Pohl.[3]
Life
Pohl-Weary was born in Toronto. She was raised in St. Catharines, Ontario, preschool, and in the west end of Toronto where she frequented the Parkdale public library as a girl and where she still lives.[4]
Literary career
For eight years, Pohl-Weary published and wrote for Kiss Machine magazine, which ceased publication in 2008. She is also a former editor of Broken Pencil.
Her 2002 biography of Judith Merril, Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril (Between the Lines Books), won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book in 2003[5] and was a finalist for the Toronto Book Award. Asimov's Science Fiction magazine said in a review: "Assembled from scraps, fragments, previously published essays, and polished manuscripts by Judith Merril's granddaughter, Emily Pohl-Weary has done a superhuman job."[citation needed]
Pohl-Weary's first novel, A Girl Like Sugar, was published by McGilligan Books in 2004.[6] It features a twenty-something girl haunted by her dead rock star boyfriend. She also edited a critically acclaimed female superhero anthology, Girls Who Bite Back: Witches Mutants, Slayers and Freaks (2004). Her subsequent books include a collection of poetry, Iron-on Constellations (2005) and the novel Strange Times at Western High (2006), featuring zine-publishing teen sleuth Natalie Fuentes, who teams up with a computer hacker and a graffiti artist to solve crime at her Toronto high school.[3] Her most recent book is the young adult novel Not Your Ordinary Wolf Girl (2013), about a musician who gets bitten by a vicious dog in Central Park and finds herself changing in unusual ways.
In 2008, Emily founded the Toronto Street Writers, a free writing group for inner-city youth in the neighbourhood where she grew up. For three years, she led a weekly writing workshop for residents of Sagatay (Na-Me-Res), a long-term transitional home for First Nations, Metis and Inuit men in Toronto. Her writing workshops focus on writing skills, creative empowerment, learning tools for conflict-resolution, and drawing out participants' unique voices and stories.
Books
- Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril, Merrill and Pohl-Weary (Between the Lines Books, 2002), ISBN 1-896357-57-1[6]
- Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Mutants, Slayers and Freaks (Sumach Press, 2004), anthology edited, LCCN 2004-463379
- A Girl Like Sugar (Toronto: McGilligan Books, 2004), young-adult novel, LCCN 2004-281045
- Violet Miranda, Pohl-Weary and Willow Dawson, Strange Horizons (Feb 2005–Aug 2005), 24-part graphic novel[6]
- Iron-on Constellations (Tightrope Books, 2005), poems, LCCN 2005-482494
- Strange Times at Western High (Annick Press, 2006), YA mystery novel[2]
- Not Your Ordinary Wolf Girl (Amazon Skyscape, 2013), YA supernatural novel
References
- ↑ LAC=1010E1379 (Pohl-Weary, Emily). Library and Archives Canada (LAC). Virtual International Authority File (viaf.org). Retrieved 24 July 2014.
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Wilson, Julie (August 7, 2013). "Emily Pohl-Weary on Turning Your Passions into Your Job". With audio-video interview(?).
- ↑ "Frequently Asked Questions". Emily Pohl-Weary. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
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- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Emily Pohl-Weary at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 11 September 2013. Select a title to see its linked publication history and general information. Select a particular edition (title) for more data at that level, such as a front cover image or linked contents.
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- Emily Pohl-Weary at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Kiss Machine magazine
- Emily Pohl-Weary at Library of Congress Authorities, with 4 catalogue records
- Articles with unsourced statements from September 2007
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- 1973 births
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian poets
- Canadian comics writers
- Canadian women poets
- Canadian magazine editors
- Canadian magazine publishers (people)
- Date of birth missing (living people)
- Living people
- Canadian women novelists
- 21st-century women writers
- Women magazine editors
