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{{Short description|Canadian writer, university professor, and magazine editor}}
{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->
| name        = Emily Pohl-Weary
| image       = 
| caption     = 
| birth_date  = 1973
| birth_place = [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada
| death_date  = 
| occupation  = Writer, editor
| period      = 2000–present
| genre       = Biography, [[YA fiction]], comics, science fiction
| notableworks= ''Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril''
| website     = {{URL|emilypohlweary.com}}
}}

'''Emily Pohl-Weary''' (born 1973)<ref name=VIAF-LAC/> is a Canadian [[novelist]], poet, university professor, and [[magazine]] [[Editing|editor]].<ref name=about/> She is the granddaughter of [[science fiction]] writers and editors [[Judith Merril]] and [[Frederik Pohl]].<ref name=wilson/>

==Life==
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Pohl-Weary is an author and creative writing professor who was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Her most-recent book is ''Ghost Sick'', poetry about tragedy and resilience in the Toronto neighbourhood where she grew up. Her previous books include the young adult novel, ''Not Your Ordinary Wolf Girl'', as well as a [[Hugo Award]]-winning biography, a female superhero anthology, a poetry collection, and a girl pirate comic.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://emilypohlweary.tumblr.com/about|website=Emily Pohl-Weary|accessdate=November 20, 2016|title=Tumblr}}</ref>

==Literary career==
Pohl-Weary's second collection of poems, ''Ghost Sick: A Poetry of Witness'' won the 2016 [[Fred Cogswell]] Award for Excellence in Poetry.<ref name="Fred Cogswell Award Winners for 2016">{{cite web |url=https://rclas.com/awards-contests/fred-cogswell-award/2016-award/ |website=Royal City Literary Arts Society |title=2017 and 2016 Award Winners |accessdate=November 20, 2016}}</ref> Canada's Parliamentary Poet [[George Elliott Clarke]] reviewed it thusly in the [[Halifax Chronicle]]: ''"Like Holocaust witness poet Paul Celan, Pohl-Weary checks tabloids, billboards, newsflashes, for the language to bespeak domesticated violence."''{{cn|date=February 2024}}

Her biography of her grandmother [[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<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2003-hugo-awards/ |title=2003 Hugo Awards |accessdate=March 25, 2010 |publisher=World Science Fiction Society |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110507164758/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2003-hugo-awards/ |archivedate=May 7, 2011 }}</ref> and was a finalist for the Toronto Book Award. 

Pohl-Weary's first novel, ''A Girl Like Sugar'', was published by McGilligan Books in 2004.<ref name=isfdb/> 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]].<ref name=wilson>Wilson, Julie (August 7, 2013). [http://49thshelf.com/Blog/2013/08/07/Emily-Pohl-Weary-on-Turning-Your-Passions-into-Your-Job "Emily Pohl-Weary on Turning Your Passions into Your Job"]. Accessed February 25, 2024.</ref> 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, she 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.

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]]'' magazine. In October 2022, Pohl-Weary released the audio drama ''The Witch's Circle'', based on Russian folklore, as part of Odyssey Theatre's podcast series ''[[The Other Path (podcast)|The Other Path]]''.

== Books ==

* ''Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril'', Merrill and Pohl-Weary ([[Between the Lines Books]], 2002), {{ISBN|1-896357-57-1}}<ref name=isfdb/>
* ''Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Mutants, Slayers and Freaks'' (Sumach Press, 2004), anthology edited, {{LCCN|2004463379}}<!--with linked Contents-->
* ''A Girl Like Sugar'' (Toronto: McGilligan Books, 2004), young-adult novel, {{LCCN|2004281045}}
* ''Violet Miranda'', Pohl-Weary and [[Willow Dawson]], ''[[Strange Horizons]]'' (Feb 2005–Aug 2005), 24-part graphic novel<ref name=isfdb/>
* ''Iron-on Constellations'' ([[Tightrope Books]], 2005), poems, {{LCCN|2005482494}}
* ''Strange Times at Western High'' ([[Annick Press]], 2006), YA mystery novel<ref name=about/>
* ''Not Your Ordinary Wolf Girl'' ([[Penguin Canada]] and [[Amazon Publishing|Amazon Skyscape]], 2013), YA supernatural novel
* ''Ghost Sick: A Poetry of Witcness'' ([[Tightrope Books]], 2015), poetry

== References ==
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{{isfdb name|21583}}. Retrieved 11 September 2013.</ref>
<ref name=about>
{{Cite web
 |url         = http://www.emilypohlweary.com/about.html
 |title       = About Emily
 |accessdate  = 25 March 2010
 |author      = Pohl-Weary
 |date        = n.d.
 |publisher   = Emily Pohl-Weary (emilypohlweary.com)
 |url-status     = dead
 |archiveurl  = https://web.archive.org/web/20100206041816/http://www.emilypohlweary.com/about.html
 |archivedate = 6 February 2010
}}</ref>

<ref name=VIAF-LAC><!-- prefer Canadian writers at LAC, not found -->
[http://viaf.org/processed/LAC|1010E1379 LAC=1010E1379 (Pohl-Weary, Emily)]. [[Library and Archives Canada]] (LAC). [[Virtual International Authority File]] (viaf.org). Retrieved 24 July 2014.</ref>
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== External links ==
* {{official website }}
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120406233940/http://kissmachine.org/ ''Kiss Machine''] magazine
* {{LCAuth|no2002068911|Emily Pohl-Weary|4|ue}}

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