TÉA MUTONJI is a poet and fiction writer. Her debut collection of short stories, Shut Up You’re Pretty, was a finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize (2019) and Canada Reads (2024). It won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction (2020) and the Trillium Book Award (2020). Mutonji was a recipient of the Writers’ Trust Rising Stars Award (2022) and received the Jill Davis Fellowship (2021) at New York University, where she completed her MFA in fiction.
