Mona Awad was born on August 22,1978 and is a Canadian novelist and short story writer known for works of darkly comic fiction.
10 Facts About Mona Awad
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Mona Awad's second novel, Bunny, was a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror and New England Book Award.
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Mona Awad has worked as an assistant professor at Syracuse University since 2020.
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Mona Awad was born on August 22,1978, in Montreal, Quebec.
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Mona Awad's mother is a French-Canadian Catholic of Serbian and Irish descent.
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Mona Awad studied English literature at York University, earning a Bachelor of Arts from the university in 2004.
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Mona Awad went on to earn a masters in English at the University of Edinburgh, an MFA at Brown University, and a PhD at the University of Denver.
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Mona Awad has lived in the United States since 2009, currently based in Boston, Massachusetts and Syracuse, New York, where she is the Esther M Larsen Faculty Fellow in the Humanities and Assistant Professor at Syracuse University.
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When Mona Awad began writing as a columnist for Maisonneuve, she used the pseudonym Veronica Tartley.
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Mona Awad was inspired to write the book because of her experiences growing up and struggling with her own body image.