Emily McKibbon is an award-winning writer and curator of settler descent, with over fifteen years' experience in Canada and internationally. She has worked in curatorial, collections and research capacities at MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON; George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY; Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; The Image Centre, Toronto; the National Museum of the Royal New Zealand Navy, Auckland; Seneca College, Toronto; and the University of Guelph.

Emily’s writing has been published in The Malahat Review, Canadian Art, C Magazine, PRISM international, Room Magazine, The New Quarterly, BlackFlash, and other literary and arts periodicals. Her writing has been commissioned by numerous public and private galleries, including Angell Gallery, Toronto; Varley Art Gallery of Markham; and the Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives, Brampton.

Emily has received numerous awards and recognitions, including an Honourable Mention for Best New Magazine Writer at the Canadian National Magazine Awards in 2015, a Pushcart nomination from Room Magazine in 2018, the Edie Yolles Research Prize from The Image Centre in 2020, and the 2021 Room Magazine Creative Nonfiction Contest. She is currently based in Windsor, Ontario, where she is Head, Exhibitions and Collection at Art Windsor-Essex.