Saleema Nawaz's most recent novel is Songs for the End of the World. Her first novel, Bone and Bread, won the Quebec Writers' Federation Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was a national bestseller and a finalist for the 2016 Canada Reads competition. She is also the author of the short story collection Mother Superior and a winner of the Writers' Trust of Canada / McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize.

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A Fiction Editor at The Fiddlehead, Saleema has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo and has taught creative writing at the Banff Centre, McGill University, Bishop's University, and the Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University. A former columnist for the Montreal Gazette, Saleema has also written for video games and interactive audio fiction and can currently be found in the Murdoch Mysteries TV writers' room, where she is an Executive Story Editor.

 

When she isn't writing TV, Saleema is busy working on several projects for the stage, including two original musicals. ​