Camilla Gibb

Camilla Gibb has a BA in anthropology and Middle Eastern studies from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in social anthropology from Oxford University. She spent two years at the University of Toronto as a postdoctoral research fellow before becoming a full-time writer.

She is the author of five novels: Mouthing the Words, The Petty Details of So-and-so’s Life, Sweetness in the Belly, The Beauty of Humanity Movement and The Relatives, as well as a memoir, This Is Happy, and a poetry collection, I Used to Be a Pisces.

She has won the City of Toronto Book Award, the Trillium Book Award and the CBC Canadian Literary Award for short fiction and been shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize and the Giller Prize. She has held several positions at U of T, including the Jack McClleland Writer-in-Residence, the Barker Fairley Distinguished Visitor and the June Callwood Professor in Social Justice, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Victoria College.