Aurora Stewart de Peña
Aurora Stewart de Peña is a Toronto-based playwright and author. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in The Ex-Puritan, Little Brother, and Petal Journal, and she has contributed essays to Vice, Real Life Magazine, and The Globe and Mail. Her plays have been performed in Toronto at Buddies in Bad Times, Factory Theatre, and Harbourfront Centre, among other venues, and in New York, England, and Italy.
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“Listen to this: ‘Great advertising changes the way we see the world. Great advertising reflects culture, amplifying ideas that move us all forward.’ Julius Julius does exactly this, if for ‘advertising’ we read ‘literature:’ it changes how we see, it moves us forward. Fast-paced, strange, perky, and uncanny as the contemporary world, Stewart de Peña’s novel in individual paragraphs creates a knowing magic realist world, rife with the misogyny and surrealism of late-stage capitalism and its corporations. Yet at the same time, it reads with the irreverent and delightful self-awareness of a smart campaign.”—2025 Atwood Gibson Prize Jury (Gary Barwin, Ali Bryan, and Jasmine Sealy)Works Recognized by WT