Receive a handwritten note from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Washington Black.

Esi Edugyan is the author of the novels The Second Life of Samuel Tyne and Half-Blood Blues, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Orange Prize. In 2014, she published her first book of non-fiction, Dreaming of Elsewhere: Observations on Home.

Her third novel, Washington Black, was published in September 2018. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize, and the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.

She lives in Victoria, British Columbia, with her husband and two children.