Emily Wood is a writer, graduate student, bookseller, and event programmer based in Toronto/Tkaronto, Canada. She works across forms and has produced plays, fiction, poetry, non-fiction and scholarship. Her writing has been published in C Magazine, The Creative Independent, The Hart House Review, Rookie Magazine, Metatron, among others. Her plays Loud In the House of Herself (2016) and Boulders (2016) were produced by the University of Western Ontario. In 2021, CV2 Magazine shortlisted her work for the Foster Poetry Prize. She has studied playwriting at Concordia University, and Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal, and graduated from the University of Toronto with a BA in Religion, Gender Studies, and English Literature in 2022. From 2020-2022 she was a devoted participant of Ariana Reines’ Invisible College. She is currently matriculating towards a MA in Religious Studies at the University of Toronto. 

In 2022 she co-founded Pack Animal Series with her best friend, Emma Olivia Cohen. Pack Animal is a literary series that programs an eclectic and intergenerational roster of local and international artists and writers on a quarterly basis.

As a graduate student in the University of Toronto’s Religion Department, her research has been the recipient of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council award. Her work centres on Christian political theologies of fetal personhood in memorials and graves for the unborn. Her thesis work in progress deploys a mixed methodology of ethnography, political theology, and critical theory. Other areas of study and interest include Christian mysticism, Medieval contemplative literature, and Buddhist fiction and poetry.

She is currently at work on a novella titled “Teach Me Your Statues,” a play about angels and hyper-acceleration of language in the 21st century, and two chapbooks about cows in literature, and the symbolic potency and linguistic sexualization of “sucking.”

In other pockets of time, she works as a bookseller at beloved independent bookstore, Type Books.