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Emily Strempler

Emily Strempler (she/her) is a queer, German-Canadian, ex-fundamentalist writer of inconvenient fiction. She is an intersectional-feminist, anti-colonist, and abolitionist.
Banff, Canada

Selected work (13 publications)

2024
“She is Not a Metropolis”: Land Speculation, Settler Politics, and the Invention of Silver CityAll were waiting for that wary bird, the capitalist, to come along and convert their airy visions into substantial reality.” — The Calgary Daily Herald, 1906
Essay
Broken Pencil, 2024
Bad Trip“…Olivia wants to be a fun girl. She wants to be chill about things. Not like last night, when she didn’t have the pills, and the drinks didn’t hit so nice, and she ended up yelling at a guy from the maintenance department…”
literary fiction
The Amazine, 2024
A Likeable Girl“She slides the test into her binder and turns the phrase over in her mind. 'Boys don’t like girls who are too smart.' Adds it to a pile of similar statements. A list that grows and grows, until it seems to encompass every conceivable thing..."
Agnes and True, 2024
War Story“The President had announced the curfew at the beginning of the month, in a special 9am broadcast sent out to all of the country’s televisions and radios. There was a war on, he said, a war against ‘the criminal element’…”