Emma Healey is a writer who lives in Toronto.


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.

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 BooksCanadian Art, the Toronto Starthe National Post, the FADER, Hazlittthe Hairpin, Real Life, Toronto Life, the Walrus, and many, many more. Occasionally she writes a newsletter called Apartment Poem.

photo by Arden Wray

photo by Arden Wray