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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

by (author) Andrea Warner
foreword by Vivek Shraya

We Oughta Know

How Céline, Shania, Alanis, and Sarah Ruled the ’90s and Changed Music

by (author) Andrea Warner
foreword by Vivek Shraya

Revenge of the Raccoons

by (author) Vivek Shraya
illustrated by Juliana Neufeld

Next Time There's a Pandemic

by (author) Vivek Shraya

People Change

by (author) Vivek Shraya

How to Fail as a Popstar

by (author) Vivek Shraya
foreword by Brendan Healy

God Loves Hair

read by Vivek Shraya
foreword by Cherie Dimaline

God Loves Hair: 10th Anniversary Edition

text by Vivek Shraya
illustrated by Juliana Neufeld
foreword by Cherie Dimaline

God Loves Hair: Tenth Anniversary Edition

text by Vivek Shraya
illustrated by Juliana Neufeld
foreword by Cherie Dimaline

The Subtweet

A Novel

by (author) Vivek Shraya

Death Threat

by (author) Vivek Shraya
illustrated by Ness Lee

I'm Afraid of Men

by (author) Vivek Shraya

The Boy & the Bindi

by (author) Vivek Shraya
illustrated by Rajni Perera

even this page is white

by (author) Vivek Shraya

She of the Mountains

by (author) Vivek Shraya
illustrated by Raymond Biesinger