Meet the Writer
Emily (she/her/hers) is a Canadian poet and writer living on the unceded and unsurrendered traditional territories of the Coast Salish Peoples of the Qayqayt First Nations. She holds a BA (Hons.) and BEd from Simon Fraser University (SFU), is currently a student of The Writer’s Studio Creative Writing Program (SFU), and will be pursuing Graduate Studies in Fall 2024 (SFU Department of English). She is the founder and editor of SAPP, a member of the Royal City Literary Arts Society, and a member of the Federation of BC Writers.
Emily currently works as an Office Manager in post-secondary, and as a Research Assistant on The Women’s Print History Project. Active in the book-loving community, Emily organizes monthly “bookstagram” meetups in the lower mainland through her Instagram platform, @molinariwrites. She has poetry published in SAPP (2024), Reverie (2023), and TWS’ forthcoming Anthology, Emerge (2024). Her short story, “Beneath the Canopy,” was longlisted for Uncharted Magazine’s Short Story Contest in 2023 and her poem “Something I never told you,” received honourable mention in the 2024 RCLAS Write-On Contest.
During her undergrad at SFU, Emily was awarded The Philippa Polson Memorial Prize in English (for Best Honours Project) in 2018, and the Tom Grieve Honours English Program Award in 2017 for her Thesis “”Til Duty Makes the Passion a Virtue”” Feminine Self-Denial and the Eighteenth-Century Epistolary Novel.” She has academic work published under her maiden name (Elsasser) on “Sarah Wilmot, Forgotten Bluestocking”.
When she’s not writing, Emily spends her time doing yoga, playing the violin, and adventuring with her dog, Gatsby. She is grateful for the support of her mentors and readers.