Kai Thomas is a Canadian writer from Ottawa, Ontario,[1] whose debut novel In the Upper Country was the winner of the 2023 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.[2]

The novel is a historical fiction about the Underground Railroad, centring on a journalist for an abolitionist newspaper in rural Ontario who is interviewing a woman in jail for killing a bounty hunter who was trying to capture fugitive slaves.[3] It was also a shortlisted finalist for the 2023 Amazon.ca First Novel Award,[4] and the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2023 Governor General's Awards.[5]

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