Zoe Whittall

Zoe Whittall's latest novel The Fake is a Toronto Star and Globe & Mail bestseller. Her fourth novel The Spectacular was published in 2021. Her third novel The Best Kind of People was published in 2017 and was shortlisted for The Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her second novel Holding Still for as Long as Possible (House of Anansi) won a Lambda literary award and was a Stonewall Honor Book. Her debut novel Bottle Rocket Hearts won the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Dayne Ogilvie Award for Best Emerging LGBTQA+ novel.

She has published three volumes of poetry, most recently an anniversary edition of The Emily Valentine Poems.

Her next book, Wild Failure & Other Stories, will be out in 2024.

She has worked as a TV writer on the Emmy-Award winning comedy show Schitt’s Creek and The Baroness Von Sketch Show for which she won a 2018 Canadian Screen Award for Best Writing, Variety or Sketch Comedy, and was nominated again in 2019.

She was born on a sheep farm in the Eastern Townships of Quebec and now lives in Prince Edward County, Ontario.