Katrina Onstad is a Canadian journalist and novelist. She has been a columnist for ''

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'' and '' Chatelaine'' and a film critic for the ''

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'' and '' CBC Arts Online.'' Her work has appeared in many publications including ''

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''. She is also a former co-host of the film program '' Reel to Real'', and has published three novels, ''How Happy to Be'' in 2006, ''Everybody Has Everything'' in 2012 and ''Stay Where I Can See You'' in 2020. ''The Weekend Effect: The Life-Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork'' is her non-fiction exploration of the erosion of leisure, published in 2017. Born in

Vancouver Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the cit ...

, Onstad is a

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graduate (English Honours) and has a Masters of Arts in English Literature from the

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. Her novel ''Everybody Has Everything'' was a longlisted nominee for the

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in 2012 and a shortlisted nominee for the Toronto Book Award in 2013,"Toronto Book Awards shortlist announced"
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'', August 15, 2013. and was named a Best Book of 2012 in ''The Globe and Mail'' and '' NOW''. She was nominated for a US National Magazine Award (also known as an "Ellie") for her essay "My Year of Living Dangerously", which appeared in the August 2007 issue of ''

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'' magazine. She has won three Canadian National Magazine Awards, including one for a profile of filmmaker David Cronenberg in ''Toronto Life'' and has been nominated multiple times. Her most recent novel, ''Stay Where I Can See You'', was published in 2020."47 works of Canadian fiction to watch for in spring 2020"
CBC Books, February 5, 2020.

Bibliography

* ''How Happy to Be'' (2006) * ''Everybody Has Everything'' (2012) * ''Stay Where I Can See You'' (2020)

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