Online Author Talks Series: Kai Thomas

Mississauga Library's Author Talk series features a wide range of talented writers. Hear authors read from their books. Ask questions, learn about the writing process, and find out more about their craft of telling captivating stories.

January Author Talks features Kai Thomas

Kai Thomas is a graduate of University of Guelph's Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts Program. Apart from writing, he works as a carpenter and a land steward. He is Afro-Canadian, born and raised in Ottawa, descended from Trinidad and the British Isles.

In the Upper Country is his first novel and was shortlisted for the 2023 Governor General's Award for Fiction, Winner of 2023 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Award, and was shortlisted for the 2023 Amazon Canada First Novel Award. In the Upper Country was a national bestseller.

In the Upper Country is a deeply researched debut novel set in the Black communities of Ontario that were the last stop on the Underground Railroad.