Artist Bio

Mona'a Malik has published poetry in Paragon IV,  Landwash, and Watch Your Head, and is a past recipient of an Arts and Letters NL award for poetry. Her fiction has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Joyland, Event, the Coming Attractions 15 Anthology, Matrix, Qwerty, The Ex-Puritan, Ricepaper, and Carve Magazine. She adapted her short story “Dead Pumpkin,” through the Young People’s Theatre Grant. Sania The Destroyer was produced for Theatre New Brunswick's 50th anniversary season (2018-2019) and was a finalist for the Quebec Writers' Federation's Playwriting Prize 2020. In 2021, she was longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story "Date Night," and her story "The Girl with Precise Interests" won the Carve Magazine Prose & Poetry Contest. In 2023, she was longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story "Aabirah Sees a Bird." She lives in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal on the unceded land of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation.*

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*Montreal is located on unceded Indigenous land, specifically on Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, Iroquois, and Mohawk territories.*