Téa Mutonji


Born in Congo-Kinshasa, Téa Mutonji is a poet and fiction writer based in Toronto. Her debut short story collection, Shut Up You’re Pretty is the first title from Vivek Shraya’s imprint, VS. Books. It was shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize (2019) and won the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award (2020) and the Trillium Book Award (2020). Téa is the recipient of the Jill Davis fellowship in Fiction at New York University, where she’s an MFA candidate.


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