Tessa McWatt
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| Occupation | Author, professor |
| Alma mater | Queen's University, University of Toronto |
| Notable works | Dragon's Cry (2001); Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging (2020) |
| Notable awards | 2020 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature – Non-fiction winner |
Tessa McWatt FRSL is a Guyanese-born Canadian writer. She has written seven novels and is a creative writing professor at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom. In 2021, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.