Novelist
Sophie Jai is a Trinidadian-Canadian novelist. Her debut novel Wild Fires (HarperCollins) has won and been shortlisted for several awards, including the 2023 Canadian Authors Association Fred Kerner Book Award, the 2023 Toronto Book Awards, the 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and the UK’s 2019 Bridport Prize Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award. She has been a Writer-in-Residence, Scholar, and Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford, where she received her Master’s in Creative Writing in 2025.