Jasmine Sealy is a Barbadian-Canadian writer. She is a graduate of the MFA program at the UBC School of Creative Writing where she won the 2020 UBC/HarperCollinsCanada Best New Fiction Prize. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and included in Best Canadian Stories and the Journey Prize anthology. Her debut novel The Island of Forgetting was published in 2022. It was named a best book of 2022 by the CBC, The Globe and Mail and The Sunday Times in the UK. It was shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. It won the 2023 Amazon Canada First Novel Award.

During her time as a graduate student at UBC, Jasmine worked with emerging writers both as a tutorial assistant and as Prose Editor at PRISM international magazine, where she prioritized the inclusion of work by marginalized, previously-unpublished writers. She has taught creative writing at UBC, Capilano University and was the inaugural Writer-in-Residence at the UBC School of Creative Writing’s 2024 summer residency and was the 2025 Writer-in-Residence at Langara College. She currently lives in Vancouver with her husband and two sons.

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