Thanks to Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and stowe story labs for their support of my creative work.

Emily Kellogg is a Toronto-based writer with a deep passion for haunting, immersive, cross-genre storytelling. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph, and is a graduate of the Stowe Story Labs Writers Room Program. Emily is the co-writer and script supervisor of the short film Lobster of Love, which received the 2026 Best Comedy Writing Award at Canadian Film Festival and Firecracker Department’s Comedy Igniter Showcase. Emily is also the co-creator, producer, and writer of the audio-fiction horror series Woodbine: A Supernatural Mystery and Parkdale Haunt, which was called “one of the world’s most popular horror-fiction podcasts” by The Toronto Star, and was named “Best of 2020” by Apple Podcasts and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). In 2021, Parkdale Haunt received the Outstanding Fiction Series Award from the Canadian Podcast Awards, the Reader’s Choice Award for Best Local Podcast from NOW Magazine, and was named “Best of 2021” by Amazon Music. In 2022, Parkdale Haunt received two Canadian Podcast Awards: Outstanding Production for a Series and the People’s Choice Award. Emily’s creative work has also been supported by grants from the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council, and her fiction and nonfiction work has won awards from and appeared in publications such as PRISM Magazine, Room Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and The Globe and Mail.

Emily is also the Program and Operations Manager at The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, a course instructor at the University of Guelph, and a proud member of The Writers Union of Canada. She’s currently working on a Gothic novel set in evangelical America, and developing a horror-comedy feature film.