
Mona has taught creative writing at Brown University, the University of Denver, Framingham State, Tufts and in the MFA program at UMass Amherst where she served as a Visiting Writer. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, McSweeney’s, TIME magazine, Ploughshares, The Walrus, Maisonneuve and elsewhere. Her third novel, ALL’S WELL, released in the summer of 2021, was longlisted for the International Dublin Award and was a finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror. It is currently under option with Bad Robot Productions. BUNNY, her second novel (Viking, 2019), was a finalist for a GoodReads Choice Award for Best Horror, the New England Book Award, the Massachusetts Book Award, and it won The Ladies of Horror Fiction Best Novel Award. It was also long-listed for the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour and the International Dublin Award. 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, 2016), won the Amazon Best First Novel Award, the Colorado Book Award and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Arab American Book Award. She teaches fiction in the Creative Writing program at Syracuse University and is based in Boston.

Rouge, her fourth novel, is forthcoming September 2023 with Simon & Schuster. Her most recent novel, All’s Well, was longlisted for the International Dublin Award and a finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror. Awad’s debut, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, winner of the Colorado Book Award and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. It is currently optioned for film with Bad Robot Productions.


It was a finalist for the New England Book Award and a Goodreads Choice Award. Mona Awad is the author of Bunny, named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, and the New York Public Library.
