Emma Healey is a writer who lives in Toronto.


Her first novel, Artists in Residence, will be published by The Dial Press in 2028.

Her book Best Young Woman Job Book: A Memoir, was published by Random House Canada in 2022. It was named a best book of the year by both the Globe and Mail and Wired Magazine, shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award, and longlisted for the Leacock Medal.

Her first collection of poetry, Begin with the End in Mind, was published by ARP Books in 2012. Her second, Stereoblind, was published in 2018 by House of Anansi.

She has been a fellow at Yaddo, Writer-in-Residence at York University, and taught creative writing at the University of Toronto, OCADU, and the Banff Centre for the Arts.

Her essays and criticism have been featured in places like n+1, Vulture, the Globe and Mail (where she was resident poetry critic for a few years), The LA Review of Books, Canadian Art, the FADER, Hazlitt, the Hairpin, and many, many more.

photo by Arden Wray

photo by Arden Wray