About

Black and white portrait of author Emily Strempler

Emily Strempler (she/her) is a queer, German-Canadian, ex-fundamentalist, writer of literary and literary-genre cross-over fiction. She is an intersectional-feminist, anti-colonist, and abolitionist. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Dalhousie Review, Broken Pencil, The Bitchin' Kitsch, and Agnes & True. She is a an editor at the Baltimore Review and managing editor at Li Isprii.

Born and raised in Winnipeg and raised in a deeply conservative Christian community, she married at eighteen before leaving the church and moving out west. She now lives with her husband of more than a decade—Michif (Red River Metis) bar manager, magazine editor, and beadwork artist, Jeremy Allard—inside beautiful Banff National Park. Together, they host the Banff Writers Group.

She is currently seeking a publisher for her first novel.

No one is free, until we are all free.