Emily Vanderploeg writes fiction, poetry, and reviews. She studied English and Art History at Queen’s University (BA Hons) and Creative Writing at Swansea University (MA, PhD), and teaches creative writing to children and adults. Emily is a Hay Festival Writer at Work and recently completed a novel with the help of a Literature Wales New Writer’s Bursary Award. Her pamphlet, Loose Jewels, won the Cinnamon Press Pamphlet Competition and was published in 2020. Strange Animals, Emily’s debut poetry collection, was published by Parthian Books in 2022. Originally from Aurora, Ontario, Canada, she lives in Swansea.
