Deborah Dundas

Deborah Dundas is an award-winning writer and editor in Toronto. She is an opinion editor at The Toronto Star, and the winner of both a National Newspaper Project of the Year Award and a Special Citation from the Canadian Journalism Foundation. She has covered business and politics in Canada and Northern Ireland in print and on television, and interviewed some of the world’s most recognizable writers, including Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, Colson Whitehead, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith, and John Irving. She studied English and political science at York University and has an MFA from the University of King’s College. Her first book On Class was a finalist for the Ontario Legislature’s Speakers Award, and she served as the editor of Best Canadian Essays 2027.