Emily Urquhart
{{Short description|Canadian writer (born 1977)}}
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|nationality=Canadian
|education=Queen's University at Kingston
Memorial University of Newfoundland (PhD)
|parents=Tony Urquhart
Jane Carter
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Emily Urquhart (born 1977) is a Canadian writer.Sue Carter, [https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/emily-urquhart-has-proof-that-people-stay-creative-as-they-get-older-her-artist-father/article_8ecfa250-f62d-5888-bef3-52fd323d2f6b.html "Emily Urquhart has proof that people stay creative as they get older: her artist father Tony Urquhart, still working at 86"]. Toronto Star, September 7, 2020. 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.Brad Wheeler, [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-shortlist-for-75000-hilary-weston-writers-trust-prize-for-nonfiction/ "Shortlist for $75,000 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction includes past winner John Vaillant, scholar Christina Sharpe"]. The Globe and Mail, September 20, 2023.
Background
The daughter of artist Tony Urquhart and writer Jane Urquhart, 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.Sue Carter, [https://quillandquire.com/authors/family-inheritance-emily-urquharts-search-for-a-cultural-understanding-of-genetics/ "Family inheritance: Emily Urquhart’s search for a cultural understanding of genetics"]. Quill & Quire, March 2015.
Writing career
Urquhart's first book, Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes, was published in 2015. A memoir of her experience giving birth to a daughter who was diagnosed with albinism, the book was shortlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction in 2016.[https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/books/short-list-announced-for-b-c-national-award-for-canadian-non-fiction "Short list announced for B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction"]. Vancouver Sun, December 9, 2015.
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.Megan Cole, [http://hamiltonreviewofbooks.com/blog/2020/11/16/megan-cole-reviews-emily-urquharts-the-age-of-creativity-art-memory-my-father-and-me "Megan Cole Reviews Emily Urquhart’s The Age of Creativity: Art, Memory, My Father and Me"]. Hamilton Review of Books, November 16, 2020.
Ordinary Wonder Tales, a collection of essays about the intersection between memory and cultural folklore, was published in fall 2022.Robert J. Wiersema, [https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/fairy-tales-aren-t-just-for-kids-emily-urquhart-on-the-stories-we-tell-ourselves/article_871500fe-90ff-593a-ac0c-dfe4631406f4.html "Fairy Tales aren’t just for kids: Emily Urquhart on the stories we tell ourselves"]. Toronto Star, November 24, 2022.
Urquhart currently teaches creative writing at the University of Waterloo.Isabel Buckmaster, [https://kitchener.citynews.ca/2022/12/01/kitchener-authors-new-book-finds-wonder-in-the-ordinary-6183657/ "Kitchener author's new book finds wonder in the ordinary"]. CityNews Kitchener, December 1, 2022.
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External links
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Category:21st-century Canadian essayists
Category:21st-century Canadian memoirists
Category:21st-century Canadian women writers
Category:Canadian women memoirists
Category:Canadian women essayists
Category:Queen's University at Kingston alumni
Category:Memorial University of Newfoundland alumni