Jasmine Sealy
Jasmine Sealy is a Barbadian-Canadian writer. She is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program at the UBC School of Creative Writing, where she won the 2020 UBC/HarperCollins Canada Best New Fiction Prize for her debut novel, The Island of Forgetting (2022). Her short fiction has been shortlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and is included in Best Canadian Stories and the Journey Prize anthology. The Island of Forgetting was named a best book of 2022 by the CBC, The Globe and Mail, and The Sunday Times in the UK. It was also shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and it won the 2023 Amazon Canada First Novel Award.
During her tenure at UBC, Jasmine worked with emerging writers both as a tutorial assistant and as prose editor at PRISM international magazine, where she prioritized the inclusion of work by marginalized, previously unpublished writers. She has taught creative writing at Capilano University and was the inaugural Writer in Residence at the UBC School of Creative Writing in 2023. She currently lives in Vancouver with her husband and two sons.
Events
- Strangers on a Train ft. Jasmine Sealy | Jan 28, 2025 at 7pm
- Jasmine Sealy in conversation with Kevin Chong | Feb 26 at 6:30pm | VIEW RECORDING
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