We are pleased to announce the hiring of two new assistant professors at the Creative Writing Program starting in January 2017.
Emily Pohl-Weary is an award-winning author, editor, and creative writing instructor. She has published seven books, a series of girl pirate comics, and her own literary magazine. Her most recent book is a collection of poetry, Ghost Sick. Her novel for teens, Not Your Ordinary Wolf Girl was published by Penguin Razorbill (Canada) and Skyscape (U.S.A.) in fall 2013. Her five previous books include Strange Times at Western High, Girls Who Bite Back, A Girl Like Sugar, Iron-on Constellations, and Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril.
Emily is currently completing a PhD in Adult Education and Community Development at University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. She also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. Her scholarly research is on community-based writing programs and she has extensive experience mentoring and teaching creative writing in academic and community settings.
Ian Williams is the author of Personals, shortlisted for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book Award; Not Anyone’s Anything, winner of the 2011 Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection of short fiction in Canada; and You Know Who You Are, a finalist for the ReLit Prize for poetry. He was named as one of ten Canadian writers to watch by CBC.
Ian completed his Ph.D. in English at the University of Toronto. He was the 2014-2015 Canadian Writer-in-Residence for the University of Calgary’s Distinguished Writers Program. He has held fellowships or residencies from the Banff Center, Vermont Studio Center, Cave Canem, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Palazzo Rinaldi in Italy. He was also a scholar at the National Humanities Center Summer Institute for Literary Study.
