| Emily Urquhart | |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Education: | Queen's University at Kingston Memorial University of Newfoundland (PhD) |
| Parents: | Tony Urquhart Jane Carter |
Emily Urquhart (born 1977) is a Canadian writer.[1] She is most noted for her 2022 book Ordinary Wonder Tales, which was a shortlisted finalist for the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.[2]
The daughter of artist Tony Urquhart and writer Jane Urquhart,[1] she did her undergraduate education at Queen's University, and worked as a freelance writer and book reviewer before completing her Ph.D. in folklore studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland.[3]
Urquhart's first book, Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes, was published in 2015.[3] A memoir of her experience giving birth to a daughter who was diagnosed with albinism,[3] the book was shortlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction in 2016.[4]
In 2020 she published The Age of Creativity: Art, Memory, My Father and Me, a memoir of her childhood experiences learning about art from her father.[5]
Ordinary Wonder Tales, a collection of essays about the intersection between memory and cultural folklore, was published in fall 2022.[6]
Urquhart currently teaches creative writing at the University of Waterloo.[7]