Bestselling author of the memoir Drunk Mom Jowita Bydlowska’s UNSHAMING, an uncompromising, unflinching work of narrative nonfiction in which Bydlowska fearlessly navigates Shame’s terrain through the lens of addiction, motherhood and identity, allowing her vulnerability to become a source of strength, for readers of Sheila Heti and Leslie Jamison, to Doug Pepper at Signal, an imprint of McClelland & Stewart, Penguin Random House Canada, for publication Spring 2026, by Samantha Haywood at Transatlantic Agency.
Jowita Bydlowska is the author of Possessed (October 2022), the best-selling memoir Drunk Mom, and the best-selling novel GUY. She’s also a prolific short-story writer, journalist and a professor at the Creative School at TMU. Her latest novel, Monster, was just published with Anvil Press in 2024.
Jowita is represented by Samantha Haywood.
Congratulations, Jowita!