This virtual event is being live-streamed on Youtube\, with a question and answer period following the author talk. You can choose to watch from home or visit the City Centre branch to watch the live-stream with other fans.
\nNo registration required\, just drop-in.
\nFor more information about this Tri-Cities Writers Festival event\, email \;ask@coqlibrary.ca \;
\nCATHERINE HERNANDEZ (she/her) is an award-winning author and screenwriter. She is a proud queer woman who is of Filipino\, Spanish \, Chinese and Indian descent and married into the Navajo Nation. Her firs t novel\, Scarborough\, won the Jim Wong-Chu Award for the unpublished man uscript and was a finalist for several awards including Canada Reads 2022. She wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Scarborough\, which w as nominated for 11 Canadian Screen Awards and won 8 including Best Pictur e and Best Adapted Screenplay. Her second novel\, Crosshairs\, was shortli sted for the Toronto Book Award and made several Best-Of lists of 2020. He r third novel\, The Story of Us\, was an instant national bestseller and w as selected for the One Book Peterborough\, Kitchener and Simon Fraser Uni versity. She is currently working on a few television projects. Her fourth novel\, Behind You\, about a young girl growing up in Scarborough when a serial killer was at large\, was published this year and was an instant na tional bestseller. Before it hit the shelves\, it was optioned by Conqueri ng Lion Pictures to become a feature film\, with Catherine writing the scr eenplay. \;
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