Jasmine Sealy is a Barbadian-Canadian writer based in Vancouver, BC. Her short stories and non-fiction have appeared in The New Quarterly, Cosmonauts Avenue, Prairie Fire, Room, Best Canadian Stories 2021, and elsewhere. In 2017, she was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and in 2020 she won the HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd/University of British Columbia Prize for Best New Fiction for her debut novel, The Island of Forgetting.