Mona Awad was born in Montreal and has lived in the US since 2009. Her debut novel, 13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A FAT GIRL (Penguin), won the Amazon Best First Novel Award, the Colorado Book Award and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Arab American Book Award. It was also long-listed for the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour and the International Dublin Award. Her new novel, BUNNY will be released June 11, 2019 with Viking Press, Penguin Canada, and Head of Zeus.
Sophie Amoss is a New York-based voice artist. Her work includes commercial projects and video games and she is an Audie nominated and Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator. You can find her as Ma'ra Grimfang roaming around Blizzard's World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth; as well as in Hearthstone: Dalaran Heist as Squeamlish and many other odd characters throughout. She has won Earphones Awards for her readings of Bunny by Mona Awad and the Boy at the Door by Alex Dahl – among others.