Jasmine Sealy is a Barbadian-Canadian writer. She is a graduate of the MFA program at the UBC School of Creative Writing where she won the 2020 UBC/HarperCollinsCanada Best New Fiction Prize. Her debut novel The Island of Forgetting was published in 2022. It was named a best book of 2022 by the CBC, The Globe and Mail and The Sunday Times in the UK. It was shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. It won the 2023 Amazon Canada First Novel Award.