Photo Credit:
Photo credit
Deepa Rajagopalan
Tamara Jong
BIO
Biography

Tamara Jong (she/her) is a Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) born writer and cartoonist of Chinese and Scottish ancestry. Her work has appeared in Anomaly, Room Magazine, Body & Soul; Stories for Skeptics and Seekers and The Nasiona. She is a graduate of The Writer's Studio (Simon Fraser University), a former member of Room Magazine’s collective and a 2021 graduate of the Sequential Arts Workshop comic certificate program. She currently lives and works on Treaty 3 territory, the occupied and ancestral lands of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinabewaki, Attiwonderonk, and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation (Guelph, ON).

ADDRESS
City: , Province/Territory: Ontario
EMAIL
GENRE
Nonfiction, Children's Literature, Comics
LANGUAGES
English
LINKS
Links
tamaraljong.com
EQUITY INITIATIVE
As part of the Union’s Equity Implementation Plan, we are committed to increasing awareness of authors who are Black, Indigenous, racialized, LGBTQI2S, or living with a disability. This author identifies as:
Members who identify as:
Black, Indigenous, and/or racialized
Programs & Interests
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