Emily Pohl-Weary

She also edited a critically acclaimed female superhero anthology, Girls Who Bite Back: Witches Mutants, Slayers and Freaks (2004).

[3] Her most recent book is the young adult novel Not Your Ordinary Wolf Girl (2013), about a musician who gets bitten by a vicious dog in Central Park and finds herself changing in unusual ways.

In 2008, she founded the Toronto Street Writers, a free writing group for inner-city youth in the neighbourhood where she grew up.

For three years, she led a weekly writing workshop for residents of Sagatay (Na-Me-Res), a long-term transitional home for First Nations, Metis and Inuit men in Toronto.

In October 2022, Pohl-Weary released the audio drama The Witch's Circle, based on Russian folklore, as part of Odyssey Theatre's podcast series The Other Path.