Georgia Elvira Toews (, born April 20, 1990) is a Canadian novelist based in Toronto.Peng, R., "Georgia Toews on Her Latest Novel, Nobody Asked for This", nuvomagazine.com, June 2025.
Toews' debut novel, Hey, Good Luck Out There (2022), humorously recounts the author's struggle with addiction, recovery, and apartment-hunting during her late teens and early twenties.Wiersema, R. J., "Georgia Toews’ debut novel: Breaking down, throwing up in a realistic story of addiction and survival", Toronto Star, June 1, 2022.Wiersema, R. J., "A story of addiction and survival", Waterloo Region Record, June 4, 2022. In her second novel, Nobody Asked for This (2025), Toews examines her young adulthood and tests the limits of humor itself through the lens of a wryly observant stand-up comedian named Virginia Woolard.Ah-Sen, J. M., "This acclaimed Toronto novelist wrote a serious book about standup comedy. You may be surprised by what she loves and hates to read", Toronto Star, April 6, 2025.Stopa, T., "On West Coast Anxieties, “Mennonite Chickens”, and the Power of Comedy, with Georgia Toews", Scout Magazine, March 25, 2025.Bookclb, "A Raw Exploration of Grief, Growth, and Getting By", Book CLB, April 11, 2025.Islam, S., "Tragedy and comedy come together in Georgia Toews’s book, Nobody Asked for This", The Globe and Mail, April 25, 2025.
Toews is frequently depicted in novels by her mother, author Miriam Toews, including as the teenage character Nora Von Riesen, whose "archly lacerating exchanges" with her mother permeate All My Puny Sorrows (2014, adapted for film in 2021).Zoratti, J., "The best policy", Winnipeg Free Press, June 6, 2022.
Education Toews was educated at Humber College.
Bibliography Nobody Asked for This (Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2025), Hey, Good Luck Out There (Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2022),
References
Further reading Toews, G., "Alcohol doesn’t define me any more, but that doesn’t mean I don’t miss it", The Globe and Mail, June 4, 2022
External links Georgia Toews at Doubleday Canada