A Reading and Conversation: Mona Awad

Creative Writing Fall Reading SeriesMona Awad was born in Montreal and has lived in the US since 2009. Her debut novel, 13 Ways Of Looking at a Fat Girl (Penguin, 2016), won the Amazon Best First Novel Award, the Colorado Book Award and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Arab American Book Award. It was also long-listed for the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour and the International Dublin Award. Bunny, her second novel (Viking, 2019), was a finalist for a GoodReads Choice Award for Best Horror, the New England Book Award, the Massachusetts Book Award, and it won The Ladies of Horror Fiction Best Novel Award.