BIO

Tamara Jong (she/her) is a Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) born writer and cartoonist of Chinese and European ancestry. Her work has appeared in Anomaly, Room Magazine, Body & Soul; Stories for Skeptics and Seekers, The Fiddlehead 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). Her debut memoir Worldly Girls comes out in September 9, 2025 with Book*hug.

Tamara gratefully acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council and TWUC.