Emily Pohl-Weary



Emily Pohl-Weary is a Canadian poet, novelist and magazine editor.

Life
Pohl-Weary is the granddaughter of science fiction writers Judith Merril and Frederik Pohl.

Asimov's Science Fiction magazine said of her 2002 biography, Better to Have Loved: The life of Judith Merril: "Assembled from scraps, fragments, previously published essays, and polished manuscripts by Judith Merril's granddaughter, Emily Pohl-Weary has done a superhuman job."

Pohl-Weary’s most recent book is a young adult 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.

Pohl-Weary publishes and writes for Kiss Machine magazine. She is a former editor of Broken Pencil.

She is married to Jesse Hirsh.

Recognition
Better to Have Loved: The life of Judith Merril won the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Related Book in 2003 and was a finalist for the Toronto Book Award.

Poetry

 * Iron-On Constellations. Toronto & Detroit, MI: Tightrope Books, 2005.

Novels

 * A Girl Like Sugar. Toronto: McGilligan Books, 2004.

Non-fiction

 * "Judith Merrill's Legacy" in ''Homecalling and other stories: The complete solo short SF of Judith Merrill (edited by Elisabeth Carey). NESFA Press, 2005.
 * Better To Have Loved: The life of Judith Merrill. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2002.

Children's books

 * Strange Times at Western High. Toronto: Annick Press, 2006.
 * Not Your Ordinary Wolf Girld. Marshall Cavendish Corp. / Amazon Children's Publishing, 2013.

Edited

 * Girls who Bite Back: Witches, mutants, slayers and freaks. Toronto: Sumach Press, 2004.
 * Girls with Guns (with Paola Poletto). Kiss Machine magazine (#6), [2003?]

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.