Claudia Dey’s most recent novel is Daughter (FSG and Doubleday.) An instant national bestseller, it was shortlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, named a New York Times Fall Fiction pick, an Elle Magazine Book of the Year, and a Globe and Mail Best Book.

Her second novel, Heartbreaker, was a Trillium Book Award finalist, named a best book of the year by multiple publications, and is being adapted for television. She is also the author of Stunt, a finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Her plays have been produced internationally, and shortlisted for the Governor General’s, Dora, and Trillium Book Awards.

Dey has worked as a horror film actress, a guest artist at the National Theatre School, and an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto. Her fiction, interviews, and essays have appeared in The Paris Review (“Mothers As Makers of Death”), VOGUE, McSweeney’s, Lit Hub, Hazlitt, The Believer, and elsewhere.

Dey has read widely from her novels––appearing in bookstores and literary festivals across North America, lecturing at the Singapore Writers Festival, and conducting interviews with writers and artists such as Margaret Atwood, Sheila Heti, Leanne Shapton, Molly Ringwald, Cherie Dimaline, and Leslie Feist.

For literary requests and speaking engagements, please contact CookeMcDermid, and for film queries, UTA.