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Photo credit
Deepa Rajagopalan
Tamara Jong
BIO
Biography

Tamara Jong (she/her) is a Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) born writer and cartoonist of Chinese and Scottish ancestry. Her work has appeared in Anomaly, Room Magazine, Body & Soul; Stories for Skeptics and Seekers and The Nasiona. She is a graduate of The Writer's Studio (Simon Fraser University), a former member of Room Magazine’s collective and a 2021 graduate of the Sequential Arts Workshop comic certificate program. She currently lives and works on Treaty 3 territory, the occupied and ancestral lands of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinabewaki, Attiwonderonk, and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation (Guelph, ON). Her memoir is coming out in 2025 with Book*hug. 

ADDRESS
City: , Province/Territory: Ontario
EMAIL
GENRE
Nonfiction, Children's Literature, Comics
LANGUAGES
English
LINKS
Links
tamaraljong.com
EQUITY INITIATIVE
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Members who identify as:
Black, Indigenous, and/or racialized
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