Tessa McWatt

Tessa McWatt’s most recent book is The Snag: A Mother, a Forest, and Wild Grief, winner of the 2026 OCM Bocas Prize for Nonfiction. Her seven novels include her latest, The Snow Line, shortlisted for the 2022 Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize. Her non-fiction work includes Luminous Ink: Writers on Writing in Canada, co-edited with Dionne Brand and Rabindranath Maharaj, and Shame On Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging, winner of the 2020 OCM Bocas Prize for Nonfiction. It was also shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Prize 2020 and received a 2018 Eccles British Library Award. Tessa, born in Guyana, is also a librettist and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.