Emily St. John Mandel

Emily St. John Mandel is a Canadian novelist, born in 1979 on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. She trained in contemporary dance at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre before turning to fiction with Last Night in Montreal (2009), The Singer's Gun (2010) and The Lola Quartet (2012). Her fourth novel, Station Eleven (2014), a post-pandemic story woven around a travelling Shakespeare troupe, was adapted for television by HBO. She has since written The Glass Hotel (2020) and Sea of Tranquility (2022), a novel that spans time travel and lunar colonies. Exit Party, her seventh novel, is announced for September 2026.