Sheena Kamal

Sheena Kamal is a Canadian novelist. Her works include thrillers and young adult fiction.

Early life and education Kamal moved to Canada from Trinidad at age 6. She received a degree in political science from the University of Toronto and worked in the film industry before beginning a career as a novelist. Watts, a crime investigator, is half-Indigenous and half-Palestinian and lives in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

The Lost Ones (2017) is a thriller set in Vancouver. Kamal developed the concept for the novel while working as a staffer on Shoot the Messenger.

Roxane Gay praised The Lost Ones on her Goodreads account and Jael Richardson selected it as a recommended title on CBC Radio's q books program. The novel won 2018's Macavity Award for best first novel and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Mystery.

Fight Like a Girl Kamal's first book for young readers is Fight Like a Girl (2020). Novelist Jennifer Hillier recommended the work in Ms., noting that "I would buy this book based on the title alone".

Personal life Like the main character of Fight Like a Girl, Kamal practises Muay Thai.

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