Emily Urquhart

Emily Urquhart (born 1977) is a Canadian writer. 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.

Background The daughter of artist Tony Urquhart and writer Jane Urquhart,

Writing career Urquhart's first book, Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes, was published in 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.

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

Urquhart currently teaches creative writing at the University of Waterloo.