https://www.sheenakamal.com/about daily 0.75 2023-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea2166a9e0116158d034de3/86237119-b3b8-4e3c-a674-a69a9872015f/edit+Sheena+Kamal278833.jpg ABOUT - Author, Essayist and Screenwriter SHEENA KAMAL holds an HBA in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and was awarded a TD Canada Trust scholarship for community leadership and activism around the issue of homelessness. Her critically acclaimed adult thriller series (The Lost Ones, It All Falls Down and No Going Back) was published internationally by HarperCollins and won her a Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, a Strand Magazine Critics Award and Macavity Award. The Lost Ones has been sold in fifteen countries and was a Globe and Mail Bestseller, a Time Magazine Recommended Read, an iBooks Best Book, a Bustle Best Book and a Powell's Pick. Fight Like a Girl, her debut YA novel published by Penguin Teen was nominated for the Arthur Ellis and Forest of Reading awards. Her short fiction has appeared in The Perfect Crime (2022, HarperCollins), Changing the Face of Canadian Literature (Guernica, 2020), and Vancouver Noir (2018, Akashic). Additionally, her essays have been featured in The Guardian, Bustle, The Irish Times, Writer’s Digest, and Entertainment Weekly. Sheena was born in the Caribbean and immigrated to Canada as a child. Prior to writing novels, she was a researcher and development coordinator for film and television. She has a background in acting and martial arts, and has worked as an actor and stunt double for other South Asian actors, including Rekha Sharma. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce435d6bea1ed00016ba287/1558964652247-5MWXNMFZVOPGE4TY6U2Q/MHeiderich_ReflexionenZwei-05-copy.jpg ABOUT https://www.sheenakamal.com/writing daily 0.75 2020-04-24 https://www.sheenakamal.com/press daily 0.75 2020-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce435d6bea1ed00016ba287/1558964652247-5MWXNMFZVOPGE4TY6U2Q/MHeiderich_ReflexionenZwei-05-copy.jpg PRESS https://www.sheenakamal.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce435d6bea1ed00016ba287/1558964652247-5MWXNMFZVOPGE4TY6U2Q/MHeiderich_ReflexionenZwei-05-copy.jpg CONTACT https://www.sheenakamal.com/praise daily 0.75 2020-04-28 https://www.sheenakamal.com/newsevents daily 0.75 2020-04-25 https://www.sheenakamal.com/books daily 1.0 2020-04-25 https://www.sheenakamal.com/books/fightlikeagirl monthly 0.5 2020-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea2166a9e0116158d034de3/1587754313664-76UHV3HIILQGI1RC94HX/9780735265554+%281%29.jpg BOOKS - FIGHT LIKE A GIRL - FIGHT LIKE A GIRL (YA) The Beauty of the Moment meets Exit, Pursued by a Bear. Award-winning thriller writer Sheena Kamal delivers a kick-ass debut YA novel that will have fans crying out for more. “If this is the future of YA, long may it prosper. Sheena Kamal is a real Canadian find.” Margaret Cannon, The Globe and Mail Love and violence. In some families they're bound up together, dysfunctional and poisonous, passed from generation to generation like eye color or a quirk of smile. Trisha's trying to break the chain, channeling her violent impulses into Muay Thai kickboxing, an unlikely sport for a slightly built girl of Trinidadian descent. Her father comes and goes as he pleases, his presence adding a layer of tension to the Toronto east-end townhouse that Trisha and her mom call home, every punch he lands on her mother carving itself indelibly into Trisha's mind. Until the night he wanders out drunk in front of the car Trisha is driving, practicing on her learner's permit, her mother in the passenger seat. Her father is killed, and her mother seems strangely at peace. Lighter, somehow. Trisha doesn't know exactly what happened that night, but she's afraid it's going to happen again. Her mom has a new man in her life and the patterns, they are repeating. BUY NOW https://www.sheenakamal.com/books/thelostones monthly 0.5 2020-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea2166a9e0116158d034de3/1587753530008-DS0FIYAI2WLG33LXACG3/LostOnes+hc.JPG BOOKS - THE LOST ONES - THE LOST ONES NORA WATTS BOOK 1 A BUSTLE BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH TIME MAGAZINE SUMMER READ RECOMMEND Winner of the Macavity and Strand Critics Award for Best First Novel Winner of the KOBO Emerging Writer Prize Finalist for the International Thriller Writers and Barry Award for Best First Novel "A brave, unflinching heroine and brave, unflinching writing add up to an extraordinary debut--highly recommended."--Lee Child A dark, compulsively readable psychological suspense debut, the first in a new series featuring the brilliant, fearless, chaotic, and deeply flawed Nora Watts—a character as heartbreakingly troubled, emotionally complex, and irresistibly compelling as Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander and Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole. It begins with a phone call that Nora Watts has dreaded for fifteen years—since the day she gave her newborn daughter up for adoption. Bonnie has vanished. The police consider her a chronic runaway and aren’t looking, leaving her desperate adoptive parents to reach out to her birth mother as a last hope. A biracial product of the foster system, transient, homeless, scarred by a past filled with pain and violence, Nora knows intimately what happens to vulnerable girls on the streets. Caring despite herself, she sets out to find Bonnie with her only companion, her mutt Whisper, knowing she risks reopening wounds that have never really healed—and plunging into the darkness with little to protect her but her instincts and a freakish ability to detect truth from lies. The search uncovers a puzzling conspiracy that leads Nora on a harrowing journey of deception and violence, from the gloomy rain-soaked streets of Vancouver, to the icy white mountains of the Canadian interior, to the beautiful and dangerous island where she will face her most terrifying demon. All to save a girl she wishes had never been born. BUY NOW https://www.sheenakamal.com/books/itallfallsdown monthly 0.5 2020-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea2166a9e0116158d034de3/1587753812329-0BPFHKZKVL0E5WYDV8V8/ItAllFallsDown+hc.JPG BOOKS - IT ALL FALLS DOWN - IT ALL FALLS DOWN NORA WATTS BOOK 2 “A stunning, emotionally resonant thriller.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The brilliant, fearless, deeply flawed Nora Watts—introduced in the "utterly compelling" (Jeffery Deaver) atmospheric thriller The Lost Ones—finds deadly trouble as she searches for the truth about her late father in this immersive thriller that moves from the hazy Canadian Pacific Northwest to the gritty, hollowed streets of Detroit. Growing up, Nora Watts only knew one parent—her father. When he killed himself, she denied her grief and carried on with her life. Then a chance encounter with a veteran who knew him raises disturbing questions Nora can’t ignore—and dark emotions she can’t control. To make her peace with the past, she has to confront it. Finding the truth about her father’s life and his violent death takes her from Vancouver to Detroit where Sam Watts grew up, far away from his people and the place of his birth. Thanks to a disastrous government policy starting in the 1950s, thousands of Canadian native children like Sam were adopted by American families. In the Motor City, Nora discovers that the circumstances surrounding Sam’s suicide are more unsettling than she’d imagined. Yet no matter how far away Nora gets from Vancouver, she can’t shake trouble. Back in the Pacific Northwest, former police detective turned private investigator Jon Brazuca is looking into the overdose death of a billionaire’s mistress. His search uncovers a ruthless opiate ring and a startling connection to Nora, the infuriatingly distant woman he’d once tried to befriend. He has no way to warn or protect her, because she’s become a ghost, vanishing completely off the grid. Focused on the mysterious events of her father’s past and the clues they provide to her own fractured identity and that of her estranged daughter, Nora may not be able to see the danger heading her way until it’s too late. But it’s not her father’s old ties that could get her killed—it’s her own. BUY NOW https://www.sheenakamal.com/books/nogoingback monthly 0.5 2020-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea2166a9e0116158d034de3/1587754138216-EIZO68G5WRHNKVXRJRZ8/NoGoingBack_HC.JPG BOOKS - NO GOING BACK - NO GOING BACK NORA WATTS BOOK 3 “A dynamic addition to a consistently thrilling series.” Kirkus Reviews A People Magazine Pick From Strand Critics Award winner Sheena Kamal, comes the third novel featuring the brilliant, fearless, deeply flawed Nora Watts whose vendetta against a triad enforcer escalates when he places a target on her daughter's back. Find your enemy. Before he finds you. Nora Watts has a talent for seeing what lies beneath strangers’ surfaces, and for knowing what they’re working hard to keep hidden. Somehow, it’s the people closest to her she has trouble truly connecting with. In the case of Bonnie, the teenage daughter Nora gave up for adoption, she has to keep trying. For Bonnie has a target on her back—and it’s all because of Nora. Two years ago, Bonnie was kidnapped by the wealthy Zhang family. Though Nora rescued her, she made a powerful enemy in Dao, a mysterious triad enforcer and former head of the Zhangs’ private security. Now Dao is out for revenge, and she needs to track him down in order to keep herself—and Bonnie—safe. On Dao’s trail, Nora forms an unlikely partnership with Bernard Lam, an eccentric playboy billionaire with his own mysterious grudge to bear, and reunites with Jon Brazuca, ex-cop turned private investigator and Nora’s occasional ally. From Canada to southeast Asia they pursue Dao, uncovering a shadowy criminal cabal. But soon, the trail will lead full circle to Vancouver, the only home Nora’s ever known, and right to the heart of her brutal past. BUY NOW