Vivek Shraya
Vivek Shraya is the author of the young-adult collection God Loves Hair, the novel She of the Mountains, the poetry book even this page is white, and the children's picture book (with Rajni Perera) The Boy & the Bindi (all published by Arsenal Pulp Press), as well as I'm Afraid of Men and What I Love About Being QUEER. She is editor of the Arsenal Pulp Press imprint VS. Books, dedicated to work by young black, Indigenous, and writers of colour. Vivek was the 2014 recipient of the Steinert & Ferreiro Award for leadership in Toronto's LGBTQ community, the recipient of Anokhi Media's inaugural Most Promising LGBTQ Community Crusader Award in 2015, a 2015 Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award finalist, and a 2015 recipient of the Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Prize Honour of Distinction. Originally from Edmonton, she now lives in Calgary, where she is an assistant professor in the University of Calgary's Department of English.
Books by Vivek Shraya
We Oughta Know
How Céline, Shania, Alanis, and Sarah Ruled the ’90s and Changed Music
We Oughta Know
How Céline, Shania, Alanis, and Sarah Ruled the ’90s and Changed Music
Revenge of the Raccoons
Next Time There's a Pandemic
People Change
How to Fail as a Popstar
God Loves Hair
God Loves Hair: 10th Anniversary Edition
God Loves Hair: Tenth Anniversary Edition
The Subtweet
A Novel
Death Threat
I'm Afraid of Men
The Boy & the Bindi
even this page is white
