About
Nadja is the author of the adult novel The Nap-Away Motel, and the children's chapter book Tizzy and Me: Fifteen Ways to Love a Mink. Her short story collection The Life of a Creature, will be published this spring. Her second children's chapter book, Tizzy and Me: The Incredible Adventure of Moondog's Eye is slated for release later this year, and her second novel, Saving Seraphina, will be published next year.
Her work has been published in numerous Canadian literary magazines including Room, The Fiddlehead, Understorey, Event, Plenitude, Canthius, Prairie Fire, The Dalhousie Review, and The New Quarterly. Prior to turning to full-time writing, Nadja worked as a veterinarian, most recently at the Toronto Humane Society. She is currently working on a poetry collection about hyenas, and a third novel.
Nadja is a trained creative writing workshop facilitator, and has worked with Firefly Creative Writing, The Writers Collective of Canada, East End Arts, and CAMH Collaborative Learning College (CLC). She is passionate about the role narrative medicine and storytelling have in healing, especially as it relates to grief. Her CLC workshops focus on pet-loss grief, eco-grief, and the grief of mental illness. Find out more and sign up here.
A life-long animal-lover and long-time vegan, her writing often explores themes related to the more-than-human world. She lives with her wife, and a feisty, fluffy cat in Toronto.
