Sheena Kamal

Sheena Kamal is a Canadian novelist. Her works include thrillers and young adult fiction.

Early life and education
Kamal moved to Canada from Trinidad at age 6. She received a degree in political science from the University of Toronto and worked in the film industry before beginning a career as a novelist.

Nora Watts series
, Kamal has published three novels that center on Nora Watts: The Lost Ones (2017), It All Falls Down (2018), and No Going Back (2020). Watts, a crime investigator, is half-Indigenous and half-Palestinian and lives in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

The Lost Ones (2017) is a thriller set in Vancouver. Kamal developed the concept for the novel while working as a staffer on Shoot the Messenger.

Roxane Gay praised The Lost Ones on her Goodreads account and Jael Richardson selected it as a recommended title on CBC Radio's q books program. The novel won 2018's Macavity Award for best first novel and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Mystery.

Fight Like a Girl
Kamal's first book for young readers is Fight Like a Girl (2020). The novel centers on Trisha, a teenager who practices Muay Thai, whose father dies in a car accident. Novelist Jennifer Hillier recommended the work in Ms., noting that "I would buy this book based on the title alone".

Personal life
Like the main character of Fight Like a Girl, Kamal practises Muay Thai.