Sharon Bala’s best-selling debut novel, The Boat People, is a 2018 Canada Reads finalist. She won the 2017 Journey Prize and had a second story on the long-list. Sharon is a member of The Port Authority, a St. John’s writing group. Her short fiction has appeared in several Canadian publications including: Hazlitt, Grain, PRISM international, The Dalhousie Review, The New Quarterly, Room, Riddle Fence, and in a collection called Racket.
