About
Vivek Shraya is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of music, literature, visual art, and film. Her 2017 album with Queer Songbook Orchestra, Part‑Time Woman, was included in CBC’s Best Canadian Albums of 2017, and her first book of poetry, even this page is white, won a 2017 Publisher Triangle Award; her next book, I’m Afraid of Men, will be out in Fall 2018 from Penguin Canada. She is one half of the music duo Too Attached and the founder of the publishing imprint VS. Books.
A Polaris Music Prize nominee and four-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, Vivek was a 2016 Pride Toronto Grand Marshal, and has received honours from The Writers’ Trust of Canada and CBC’s Canada Reads. She is currently a director on the board of the Tegan and Sara Foundation and an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Calgary.
Contact
- General inquiries: vivek@vivekshraya.com
- Bookings: Lynne Dubuc, National Speakers Bureau
- Technical/accessibility issues: webmistress@vivekshraya.com
Awards & Honours
- Polaris Music Prize – Longlist Nominee: Part-Time Woman (2018)
- The Globe & Mail – Canada’s Best Dressed (2018)
- CBC Arts – Great Canadian Filmmaker of the Future: I want to kill myself (2017)
- South Asia Book Award – Highly Commended Book: The Boy & The Bindi (2017)
- Publishing Triangle Award – Winner: even this page is white (2017)
- Digital Publishing Award – Finalist: “Have You Told Your Parents?” (2017)
- J.S. Woodsworth Award – Finalist (2017)
- Lambda Literary Award – Finalist: even this page is white (2017)
- Out Magazine – 9 Trans Influencers You Should Follow (2016)
- Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts – Emerging Artist – Finalist (2016)
- Pride Toronto – Grand Marshal (2016)
- Writer’s Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize – Honour of Distinction (2015)
- South Asia Book Awards – Honour Book: God Loves Hair (2015)
- Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award – Finalist (2015)
- Bisexual Book Awards – Finalist: She of the Mountains (2015)
- Anokhi Media Most Promising LGBTQ Crusader Award – Winner (2015)
- Lambda Literary Award – Finalist: She of the Mountains (2015)
- Steinert & Ferreiro Award for LGBTQ Leadership – Winner (2014)
- George Brown College Achievement Award for Leadership – Winner (2014)
- Lambda Literary Award – Finalist: What I LOVE about being QUEER (2014)
- Lambda Literary Award – Finalist: God Loves Hair (2011)
- We Are Listening International Singer/Songwriter Award – Winner (2005)
- Futures Fest – Winner (2001)