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 memoir Worldly Girls comes out Fall 2025 with Book*hug.

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