Sharon Bala (born April 3, 1979) is a Canadian writer residing in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

[1] Her debut novel, The Boat People, won the 2015 Percy Janes First Novel Award for unpublished manuscripts.

[4] The book was selected for the 2018 edition of Canada Reads, where it was defended by Mozhdah Jamalzadah.

[8] Bala was the winner of the 2017 Journey Prize for her short story "Butter Tea at Starbucks",[9] and was longlisted for the 2017 National Magazine Award for fiction for her short story "Miloslav".

[10] Her short fiction has appeared in Hazlitt, Grain, The Dalhousie Review, Riddle Fence, Room, Prism International, Maisonneuve, Joyland, The New Quarterly, and in an anthology called Racket: New Writing From Newfoundland.