Author, Essayist and Screenwriter
SHEENA KAMAL holds an HBA in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and was awarded a TD Canada Trust scholarship for community leadership and activism around the issue of homelessness. Her critically acclaimed adult thriller series (The Lost Ones, It All Falls Down and No Going Back) was published internationally by HarperCollins and won her a Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, a Strand Magazine Critics Award and Macavity Award. The Lost Ones has been sold in fifteen countries and was a Globe and Mail Bestseller, a Time Magazine Recommended Read, an iBooks Best Book, a Bustle Best Book and a Powell's Pick. Fight Like a Girl, her debut YA novel published by Penguin Teen was nominated for the Arthur Ellis and Forest of Reading awards.
Her short fiction has appeared in The Perfect Crime (2022, HarperCollins), Changing the Face of Canadian Literature (Guernica, 2020), and Vancouver Noir (2018, Akashic). Additionally, her essays have been featured in The Guardian, Bustle, The Irish Times, Writer’s Digest, and Entertainment Weekly.
Sheena was born in the Caribbean and immigrated to Canada as a child. Prior to writing novels, she was a researcher and development coordinator for film and television. She has a background in acting and martial arts, and has worked as an actor and stunt double for other South Asian actors, including Rekha Sharma.