MFA (University of Guelph)
Zoe Whittall is a bestselling novelist and Canadian Screen Award-winning TV writer. Her novel The Best Kind of People was a finalist for the Giller prize and named Indigo’s #1 book of the year. Her most recent books are Wild Failure (stories) and No Credit River (memoir in verse). Her fifth bestselling novel The Fake (Harpercollins Canada/Penguin Random House U.S.) was longlisted for the 2023 Toronto Book Award. The New York Times called her fourth novel The Spectacular “a highly readable testament to the strength of the maternal bond” and the Toronto Star called it “a singularly impressive piece of fiction.” She won a Lamda literary award for her second novel, Holding Still for as Long as Possible (House of Anansi), and the Writers’ Trust Dayne Ogilvie prize for her debut, Bottle Rocket Hearts (Cormorant Books). She has published three books of poetry: Precordial Thump (Exile, 2008), The Emily Valentine Poems (invisible, 2006/2010) and The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life (McGilligan Books, 2001). She has worked on The Baroness Von Sketch Show, Schitt’s Creek, Degrassi and other TV shows. She lives in Prince Edward County, Ontario.