Emily M. Keeler

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

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]

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]

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]