Tessa McWatt

TESSA MCWATT is an acclaimed author whose work includes novels for adults and young people. Her fiction has been nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award, the City of Toronto Book Awards and the OCM Bocas Prize. Most reently, she published the novel Higher Ed and co-edited Luminous Ink: Writers on Writing in Canada with Rabindranath Maharj and Dionne Brand. She is the author of the forthcoming Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging, an analysis of the race debate from a personal perspective. She is also a librettist and professor of creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Where Are You, Agnes? is her first picture book.