Téa Mutonji

Born in Congo-Kinshasa, TéaMutonji is a poet and writer based in Toronto. She holds a degree in media studies and minor degrees in English literature and creative writing from the University of Toronto Scarborough. Her debut collection of short stories, Shut Up You’re Pretty, was the first title from Vivek Shraya’s imprint, VS. Books, and named to several best-of-the-year lists, including the Globe and Mail and The Walrus, among others. Shut Up You’re Pretty won the 2020 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the 2019 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Téa is the non-fiction editor of Feel Ways: A Scarborough Anthology, published by Mawenzi House. She is the recipient of the 2021 Jill Davis Fellowship in Fiction at NYU.