Emma Flannery Lawrence Healey (born January 10, 1991) is a Canadian writer and poet from Toronto, Ontario.

[7] The memoir tracks Healey's career through a series of odd jobs that haven't aligned with her initial idea of what it would mean to be a writer.

[8] Canadian author and commentator, Elamin Abdelmahmoud, said of her writing in the book as having "flare and style and an incredibly infuriating amount of skill".

[3] In a 2014 The Hairpin article Healey wrote about her experience dating an anonymous faculty member, which began as consensual but was ultimately defined by an imbalance of power.

[12] Author Heather O'Neill subsequently came forward as a groping victim while a student at the school, two decades earlier.