Emma Healey (born January 10, 1991) is a Canadian writer and poet from Toronto, Ontario.

Healey was born in Toronto, Ontario, on January 10, 1991, to actor and playwright parents.^[1] She was named after Jane Austen's character, Emma, and writer Flannery O'Connor.^[1] Healey has stereoblindness, having been born blind in one eye.^[2] She studied creative writing at Concordia University, spending a year on exchange at University College Cork.^[1] While at Concordia she was twice awarded the Irving Layton Award for Creative Writing.^[3]

Begin With the End in Mind, Healey's first collection of poetry, was published in 2012.^[1] It was selected by poet and writer Stan Rogal in 2015 as the reason he viewed Healey as an up-and-comer to watch.^[4] Her second collection of poetry, Stereoblind, was released by House of Anansi Press in 2018.^[5] The collection deals in part with learning that the name of her visual condition had a name.^[6] The front cover art was designed by her then roommate, artist Layne Hinton.^[3] Healey's book Best Young Woman Job Book was released by Random House in 2022.^[7] The memoir tracks Healey's career through a series of odd jobs that haven't aligned with her initial idea of what it would mean to be a writer.^[8] Canadian author and commentator, Elamin Abdelmahmoud, said of her writing in the book as having "flare and style and an incredibly infuriating amount of skill".^[9]

Healey was the poetry critic for The Globe and Mail from 2014 to 2016.^[10] She has also been a regular contributor to the music blog Said the Gramophone. In April 2018, Healey was Open Book's writer in residence.^[3]

In a 2014 The Hairpin article Healey wrote about her experience dating an anonymous faculty member, which began as consensual but was ultimately defined by an imbalance of power.^[11] Initially ignored by Concordia, attention was drawn to the article in 2018 after former Concordia student, Mike Spry, wrote about the toxicity of the writing program.^[12] Author Heather O'Neill subsequently came forward as a groping victim while a student at the school, two decades earlier.^[13] In 2018, Healey filed a formal complaint against a male professor. In October 2019 it was reported that the professor was no longer working at the school.^[14]

• Begin With the End in Mind (2012)
• Stereoblind (2018)
• Best Young Woman Job Book: A Memoir (2022)
• Power (2019)