Emily Donaldson is an editor, writer, and book critic whose writing and reviews have appeared in numerous publications including Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, National Post, The Walrus, Maclean’s, and Quill & Quire. Her work has been nominated for National Magazine Awards and for a Governor General’s Award. In 2016, she became the first female editor of Canadian Notes & Queries, Canada’s oldest magazine of literary criticism, for which she is also a long-time contributor. Born and raised in Montreal, she currently lives in Toronto with her husband and two sons.