Camilla Gibb is the author of five internationally acclaimed novels: Mouthing the Words, The Petty Details of So-and-so’s Life, Sweetness in the Belly, The Beauty of Humanity Movement, and most recently, The Relatives, as well as a memoir, This Is Happy. Her first collection of poetry, I Used to Be a Pisces, is forthcoming in fall 2025.

Camilla has been the recipient of the Trillium Book Award, the City of Toronto Book Award and the CBC Canadian Literary Award and has been shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the RBC Taylor Prize.

Her articles, essays and short stories have been published widely, and she recently wrote and produced two radio documentaries for CBC Radio: “Evidence of a Father” and “The Spy Who Loved Me.”

The film adaptation of her novel Sweetness in the Belly, starring Dakota Fanning, Yahya Abdul Mateen II and Kunal Nayar, was released in 2020. 

Camilla has a PhD in anthropology from Oxford University and has been writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto, the University of Alberta and the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia.

She has been mentoring aspiring writers for the past 15 years in her roles as an adjunct faculty member of the graduate creative writing programs at the University of Guelph, the University of Toronto and the Humber School for Writers. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Victoria College, University of Toronto.

She has served on juries for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the RBC Taylor Prize, the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council, and currently sits on the international advisory boards of Machik (dedicated to education, capacity building and innovation in Tibet) and the Jackman Humanities Institute.