Sharon Bala
Newfoundland and Labrador
SHARON BALA is the bestselling author of The Boat People, which won the 2020 Newfoundland & Labrador Book Award and the 2019 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. It was a finalist for Canada Reads 2018 and the 2018 Amazon Canada First Novel Award. She has published stories in Hazlitt, Maisonneuve, Riddle Fence, Room, and Prism International. She lives in St. John’s, NL, with her family.