Joanne Szilagyi
is a fiction writer and a recent graduate from Oxford University, where she researched the treatment of diverse literature in publishing. Her short fiction has been commended by the New Voices Award from PEN Canada, where she was made an honourary member, and the Oxford-BNU Award chaired by Nobel Laureate Mo Yan. Her writing has been published in The Isis and Oxford Review of Books.
Jo is currently working on her debut novel, The Guest People, which has received support from Kundiman, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the de Groot Foundation. She is represented by Lisette Verhagen at Peters Fraser + Dunlop.