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Derek Mascarenhas<\/h2>\n

Derek Mascarenhas is a graduate of the University of Toronto SCS Creative Writing Program, a finalist and runner up for the Penguin Random House of Canada Student Award for Fiction, and a nominee for the Marina Nemat Award. His linked short story collection, Coconut Dreams, was called a “stunning debut” in Quill and Quire’s starred review and The Globe and Mail named it one of the best reads from Canadian small presses. Derek\u2019s first picture book, 100 Chapatis, was praised by Kirkus Reviews as \u201cwarm and reassuring,\u201d and his second, The Mango Monster, was nominated for the Jean Throop Book Award and made the CBC Kids Reads 2025 Longlist. Derek is also working on a middle-grade and speculative novel, and currently teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto SCS.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″]

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[vc_row el_id=”getting-here”][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1759039814543{margin-top: 60px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] Author [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” curly_bg_repeat=”bg-no-repeat” curly_bg_position=”bg-pos-center-bottom” curly_bg_parallax=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1759039849614{padding-bottom: 120px !important;background-image: url(url(https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/theatrewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/06\/lightinthetheater.jpeg-copy.jpg?id=93) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text css=””] Derek Mascarenhas Derek Mascarenhas is a graduate of the University of Toronto SCS Creative Writing Program, a finalist and runner up for the Penguin Random House of Canada Student Award for Fiction, and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-907","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/907\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}