Word Vancouver in Conversation with Tanya Boteju

In this 4-episode series Word Vancouver had the pleasure to speak with author Tanya Boteju!

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TANYA BOTEJU is a teacher and writer living on unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (Vancouver, BC). Part-time, she teaches English to clever and sassy young people. The rest of her time, she writes and procrastinates from writing. Her novel, Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens (Simon & Schuster, 2019), was named a Top Ten Indie Next Pick by the American Booksellers Association, as well as selected for the American Librarian Association 2020 Rainbow List. Her next YA novel, Bruised (Simon & Schuster, 2021), has been selected as a Gold Standard book by the Junior Library Guild. In both teaching and writing, she is committed to positive, diverse representation. Visit her at tanyaboteju.com.

You can follow Tanya here: tanyaboteju.com / Instagram: @tboteju / Facebook: @tanyaboteju

You can order Tanya’s newest book Bruised here

Tanya headshot credit: Greg Elhers

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Produced by: Ali Denno

Edited by: Becca Denno (becca.denno@gmail.com)