Jasmine Sealy
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Jasmine Sealy is a British-born, Barbadian-Canadian writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. A graduate of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of British Columbia, she has worked as a prose editor at PRISM international and taught creative writing at Capil writing at Capilano University. Her debut novel, The Island of Forgetting, won the 2023 Amazon Canada First Novel Award and was inspired by Greek mythology.
Awards
['Amazon Canada First Novel Award (2023)', 'UBC/HarperCollins Best New Fiction Prize (2020)']
Notable Works
['The Island of Forgetting']
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