Catherine Hernandez

Catherine Hernandez is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel Scarborough was a shortlisted finalist for the 2017 Toronto Book Awards and the 2018 Edmund White Award.

She has also written the plays The Femme Playlist, Singkil, Eating with Lola, Kilt Pins and Future Folk, and the children's book M for Mustache: A Pride ABC. She has been the artistic director of the Sulong and b_current theatre companies in Toronto.

Of mixed Filipino, Chinese, Spanish and Indian descent, she identifies as queer.

Her second novel, Crosshairs, was published in 2020.

Scarborough was adapted by Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson into the film Scarborough, which premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. Hernandez won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards for the film's screenplay.

The novel was subsequently selected for the 2022 edition of Canada Reads, where it was defended by Malia Baker.