[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.
[5] Ordinary Wonder Tales, a collection of essays about the intersection between memory and cultural folklore, was published in fall 2022.