Téa Mutonji author biography, plus links to books by Téa Mutonji.

Téa Mutonji

Téa Mutonji is a poet and fiction writer. Her debut collection of short stories, Shut Up You're Pretty was a finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize (2019) and Canada Reads (2024). It won the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award (2020) and the Trillium Book Award (2020). Mutonji was a recipient of the Writer's Trust Rising Star's award (2022) and received the Jill Davis Fellowship (2021) at New York University where she completed her MFA in fiction.

This biography was last updated on 08/11/2026.

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