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Deepa Rajagopalan
Tamara Jong
BIO
Biography

Tamara Jong (she/her) is a Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) born writer and cartoonist of Chinese and
European ancestry. Her work has appeared in Anomaly, Room, Body & Soul: Stories for Skeptics
and Seekers, The Fiddlehead and The Humber Lit Review. She is a graduate of The Writer’s
Studio (Simon Fraser University), a former member of Room Magazine’s collective, and 2021
graduate of the Sequential Arts Workshop comic certificate program. Her memoir Worldly Girls
(Book*hug) comes out in Fall 2025. She currently lives on Treaty 3 territory, the occupied and
ancestral lands of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinabewaki, Attiwonderonk, and Mississaugas of the
Credit First Nation (Guelph, ON). Her debut memoir Worldly Girls published by Book*hug comes out September 9th! More about her can be found at https://www.tamaraljong.com/

 

ADDRESS
City: , Province/Territory: Ontario
EMAIL
GENRE
Nonfiction, Children's Literature, Comics
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Worldly Girls
Publisher
Book*hug
Year
2025
EQUITY INITIATIVE
As part of the Union’s Equity Implementation Plan, we are committed to increasing awareness of authors who are Black, Indigenous, racialized, LGBTQI2S, or living with a disability. This author identifies as:
Members who identify as:
Black, Indigenous, and/or racialized
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