Emily Austin (writer)

Emily Austin is a Canadian writer based in Ottawa, Ontario, whose debut novel Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead was a shortlisted finalist for the 2022 Amazon.ca First Novel Award.^[1]

Born and raised in St. Thomas, Ontario, she studied English literature, religious studies and library and information science at the University of Western Ontario.^[2]

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, her debut novel, was published in 2021.^[3] In addition to the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the book was also longlisted for the 2022 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour,^[4] and shortlisted for the 2022 Ottawa Book Award for English fiction.^[5]

In 2024 she published her second novel, Interesting Facts About Space,^[6] and the poetry collection Gay Girl Prayers.^[7]

She identifies as queer.^[3]