Absolutely thrilled to have won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award from The Writers' Union of Canada. it was an impressive shortlist and I honestly was not expecting this. I had to sit on the information for just under a week until the formal announcememt, which was done as an Instagram Live event. And keeping secrets is absolutely NOT my forte. To celebrate, had a lovely dinner with the Fam Four gang, including Lee Lai who is hot off several awards and high profile noms. Cannon

My Thievery of the People is one of five books shortlisted for this year's Writers' Trust Danuta Gleed Literary Award. Here are the jury's remarks: A fierce and dazzling debut, My Thievery of the People scrutinizes the legacies of colonialism and patriarchy with an unflinching eye to the damage wreaked on both oppressed and oppressor. Travelling between the Middle East and North America, and assuming a breath-taking array of fictional modes, from naturalism to surrealism to m

Shortlisted for fiction award

Canada’s best debut books in Nonfiction, Literary Fiction, and Romance by Canadian authors were chosen by a panel of three judges for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. Very exciting to be part of this lineup.