Event Speaker: Téa Mutonji

Born in Congo-Kinshasa, Téa Mutonji’s work focuses on friendship, womanhood and sexuality. Her short stories, Property of Neil and The Photographer’s Wife were winners of McClelland & Steward’s Journey Prize’s Black Excellence issue (2023). She holds a degree in Media Studies with minors in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Toronto Scarborough. Her collection of short stories, Shut Up You’re Pretty is the first title from Vivek Shraya’s imprint, VS. Books via Arsenal Pulp Press. It was shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize (2019) and won the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award (2020) and the Trillium Book Award (2020). Téa is the recipient of the Jill Davis fellowship in Fiction at NYU where she is completing her MFA in fiction.