Katrina Onstad is a freelance writer whose work on culture high and low appears in The New York Times, The Guardian, Elle, The Telegraph Magazine and Salon. Katrina has a column in the Saturday Style section of the national paper The Globe and Mail and is a regular contributor to Toronto Life magazine. At CBC.ca, she was head film critic and an on-line arts producer.

Katrina’s first novel, How Happy to Be, was published to critical acclaim in 2006 by McClelland and Stewart. Her second novel, Everybody Has Everything, will be published in 2012.

Born and raised in Vancouver, B.C., Katrina has an English degree from McGill and a Master’s from University of Toronto. She lives in Toronto with her family.

Awards

Katrina is a National Magazine Award winner in Canada for Arts Writing, and has been nominated several times, including as Best Columnist for her work in Chatelaine. In 2008, Katrina was a finalist for an American National Magazine Award in the Essay category for an article about high school sex scandals and female desire that ran in Elle.

Other Media

Katrina’s work in non-print media includes frequent appearances on CBC radio and television; TVO’s Saturday Night at the Movies and The Agenda; hosting events for the Toronto International Film Festival Group; and co-hosting the national film review show Reel to Real. She also does speaking and teaching engagements, and is a writer-for-hire.