Emily Austin

My guest on this episode is Emily Austin. Emily is the author of Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead, which was published in 2022 by Simon & Schuster Canada, and has been published in multiple other countries and in many other languages. Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead was long listed for The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, shortlisted for the Amazon First Novel Award, and a finalist for the Ottawa Book Awards.

Buzzfeed called the book “the perfect blend of macabre and funny.”

Emily and I talk about how studying library science helped her avoid some of the cliches of LGBTQ+ fiction, the disassociation she feels about her book’s success, and how having a readership has makes her feel some responsibility when it comes to writing narratives about queerness and mental health issues. I also take a moment to scare Emily a little about coming out as a poet.

 

Emily Austin: emilyaustinauthor.com

Music: "simple-hearted thing" by Alex Lukashevsky. Used with permission.

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