Katrina Onstad

Location:

Toronto, ON

Styles:

Broadcast: Video, Columns, Essays, Features, Ghostwriting, Humour, Personal Journalism, Profiles

Subjects:

Arts, Books & literature, Entertainment (film, television, theatre), Family & parenting, Fashion & apparel, Food & Drink, Men, Non-profit, Publishing, Sex and relationships, Society, Travel & tourism, Women

Bio:

Published around the world, award-winning writer Katrina Onstad has turned her critical eye to arts, culture and social issues with work in The New York Times, The Guardian, Toronto Life and many other publications. She is a columnist in the Arts & Life section of the Globe and Mail. Her recent novel, Everybody Has Everything , is a National Bestseller, and was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Publications/Client List:

• Toronto Life


• Globe and Mail


• The New York Times


• The Guardian


• CBC.ca


• Elle (US)


• Chatelaine


• Maclean’s


• Wall Street Journal


• National Geographic Traveler


• The Australian

Books:

Fiction:

• Everybody Has Everything (2012)


• How Happy to Be (2006)

Non-fiction anthologies:

• Between Interruptions: Thirty Women Tell the Truth About Motherhood (2007);


• Because I Love Her: 34 Women Writers Reflect on the Mother-Daughter Bond (2009);


• Fringe Out! The Films of Ron Mann (2010)

Other Projects:

Ghostwriting; Radio & Television (Co-hosted film review show Reel to Real; guest on TVO's Friday Night at the Movies, CBC, CTV); creating on-line audio slideshows & podcasts; teaching & public speaking; corporate communications.

Awards:

Her book, Everybody Has Everything , was long-listed for The Giller Prize, was a national bestseller, and was The Globe and Mail's Best Book of 2012.

Canadian National Magazine Award – Arts Writing (2010) and multiple nominee; American National Magazine Award nominee (US) 2008; John Howard Society Award for Social Justice Writing (1997)