• Country: Canada
Award-winning author and arts educator  EMILY POHL-WEARY is a founder of the Toronto Street Writers, a free writing group for inner-city youth. She has published five books, a series of comics, and a literary magazine. Her biography of her grandmother Judith Merril, Better to Have Loved (co-authored with Merril), won the Hugo Award and was shortlisted for the City of Toronto Book Award.