Emily M. Keeler

Emily M. Keeler
Born	(1987-07-16) 16 July 1987 (age 37) Calgary, Alberta
Occupation(s)	Book critic, newspaper and magazine editor

Emily M. Keeler (born 16 July 1987) is a Canadian writer and editor.

Biography

In October 2014, after serving as a contributing editor for Hazlitt, Keeler became the books editor of The National Post.[1][2] She held the position until December 2015, when she left to take on a senior editor role at The Walrus.[3] Keeler was elected to the Board of Directors of PEN Canada in 2016, taking on the role of Vice-President.[4][5] That same year she left the Walrus to begin work as editor of the Coach House Book series Exploded Views.[6] Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Globe and Mail, Maisonneuve and Quill & Quire.[2]

Keeler is also known for live-tweeting her experience of being trapped inside the Yonge and Bloor location of Hudson's Bay Company after the store closed for the evening.[7][8][9] In 2015 she served as a member of the CBC Radio q pop culture panel and contributed to the CBC's Out in The Open.[10]

Little Brother

In 2012, she founded Little Brother Magazine, a twice-yearly publication of short stories, essays, and visual art. Having evolved from a Tumblr project, Keeler explained at the time of its release that she didn't want it referred to as a journal because "A journal is a dead thing."[11][12] The magazine went on to win gold at the Canadian National Magazine Awards (CNMA) in 2013, for Jess Taylor's story, Pauls, in the Fiction category.[13] Her dedication to keeping the publication as open as possible prompted Canada's trade publishing magazine, Quill & Quire, to name her as one of seven women in the book industry encouraging diversity.[14] Six issues of Little Brother were released between 2012 and 2015.[15]

David Gilmour interview

Keeler's September 2013 interview with Canadian novelist and University of Toronto professor David Gilmour garnered national attention due to his admission that he prefers not to teach female novelists.[16][17] In an interview with the National Post, Gilmour claimed his comments were taken out of context, explaining to Mark Medley that Keeler was "a young woman who kind of wanted to make a little name for herself."[18] Hazlitt responded by releasing the full transcript of Keeler's interview with Gilmour so that, as editor-in-chief Chris Frey explained, "readers can judge for themselves."[19]

References

1. Robertson, Becky (15 October 2014). "Emily Keeler hired as National Post books editor". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
2. Baluja, Tamara (15 October 2014). "Emily Keeler joins National Post as books editor". jpress.journalism.ryerson.ca. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
3. Carter, Sue (18 December 2015). "National Post books editor Emily Keeler leaves for The Walrus". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
4. "PEN Canada's 2016 AGM in Review". PEN Canada. 3 June 2016. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
5. "Board Members". PEN Canada. 1 October 2011. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
6. Carter, Sue (21 June 2016). "Personnel Changes: Emily Keeler to take over Coach House's Exploded Views series". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
7. Leung, Marlene (27 February 2014). "Toronto woman trapped in The Bay live-tweets 'terrifying' ordeal". CTVNews. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
8. Youdan, Caroline (27 February 2014). "Woman gets trapped in the Bay for an hour; live-tweets the whole thing". Toronto Life. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
9. "Emily Keeler Gets Trapped In The Bay, Doesn't Meet Jeff The Mannequin (TWEETS)". HuffPost Canada. 28 February 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
10. "Why do Canadians apologize so much?". CBC Radio. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
11. Prickett, Sarah Nicole. "New mags put the 'I' at the centre of writing". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
12. Tomson, Gavin (28 October 2014). "Puritan staffer talks to Little Brother's Charles Yao". The Town Crier. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
13. National Magazine Awards (21 November 2014). "Off the Page, with Charles Yao & Little Brother Magazine". Magazine Awards. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
14. Cerny, Dory. "Imprinting change". Quill and Quire.
15. "LITTLE BROTHER". littlebrothermagazine.com. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
16. Lornic, John. "Hazlitt stirs controversy and acclaim in its first year". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
17. Keeler, Emily M. "David Gilmour on building strong stomachs". Hazlitt. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
18. Medley, Mark (25 September 2013). "David Gilmour: There isn't a racist or sexist bone in my body". National Post. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
19. "The Gilmour Transcript". Hazlitt. 25 September 2013. Retrieved 16 August 2017.