Catherine Hernandez is the author of the novel Scarborough, which won the 2015 Jim Wong-Chu Award; was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award, Toronto Book Award, the Evergreen Forest of Reading Award, and Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction; and was runner-up in the 2022 edition of CBC's Canada Reads. A film adaptation, featuring a screenplay written by Hernandez, won 8 Canadian Screen Awards in 2022, including best picture. She is also co-author (with Marcus Syrus Ware) of the children's picture book I Promise.
