Emily Pohl-Weary. Courtesy Tree Reading Series.
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Emily Pohl-Weary is a Canadian poet, novelist, and magazine editor.[1]
Life[]
Pohl-Weary is the granddaughter of science fiction writers Judith Merril and Frederik Pohl.[2] She was born and raised, and still lives, in Parkdale, in the west end of Toronto.[3]
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." (Citation needed)
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,[4] and was a finalist for the Toronto Book Award.
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Iron-On Constellations. Toronto & Detroit, MI: Tightrope Books, 2005.
Novels[]
- A Girl Like Sugar. Toronto: McGilligan Books, 2004.
Non-fiction[]
- Better To Have Loved: The life of Judith Merrill. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2002.
- "Judith Merrill's Legacy" in Homecalling, and other Stories: The complete solo short SF of Judith Merrill (edited by Elisabeth Carey). NESFA Press, 2005.[5]
Juvenile[]
- Strange Times at Western High. Toronto: Annick Press, 2006.
- Not Your Ordinary Wolf Girld. Marshall Cavendish Corp. / Amazon Children's Publishing, 2013.
Edited[]
- Girls with Guns (with Paola Poletto). Kiss Machine magazine (#6), [2003?]
- Girls who Bite Back: Witches, mutants, slayers and freaks. Toronto: Sumach Press, 2004.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[6]
See also[]
Emily Pohl-Weary and the Academy of the Impossible
References[]
- ↑ "About Emily Pohl-Weary". Author's Official website. http://emily.openflows.org/about.html. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
- ↑ "Emily Pohl-Weary". Annick Press. http://www.annickpress.com/authors/pohl-weary.asp?author=445. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
- ↑ Emily Pohl-Weary, Toronto Youth Street Stories. Web, May 31, 2013.
- ↑ "2003 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2003-hugo-awards/. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
- ↑ Homecalling and other stories, NESFA Press. Web, May 31, 2013.
- ↑ Emily Pohl-Weary, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, May 31, 2013.
External links[]
- Poems
- Books
- Emily Pohl-Weary at Amazon.com
- Emily Pohl-Weary at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Audio / video
- Emily Pohl-Weary at Canadian Writers in Person.
- About
- Emily Pohl-Weary Official website.
- Interview with Emily Pohl-Weary at The Free Library
- Interview with Emily Pohl-Weary at Between the Lines.
- review of Iron-On Constellations at Free Range Reading weblog.
- review of Iron-On Constellations at This Magazine.
- Etc.
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