Nadia L. Hohn

Nadia L. Hohn is a Canadian educator and children's book author. She has earned critical acclaim for her books for young readers, including her debut picture book, Malaika's Costume.

Born to Jamaican parents, Hohn grew up and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario, where she is an elementary school teacher. As a high school student, she wrote for her school paper, and later began contributing to university and community newspapers. At age 20, she obtained an internship in New York City, writing articles for Psychology Today.

In 2010, Hohn enrolled in a course on writing for children at George Brown College in Toronto, where she wrote a first draft of Malaika's Costume. Later that year, she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, an experience she has said spurred her ambition to have her writing published. Her first two books, Music and Media, were published by Rubicon as part of its Sankofa Series in 2015.

Hohn's debut picture book, Malaika's Costume, was published in 2016. The book, illustrated by Irene Luxbacher, tells the story of a young girl preparing to celebrate Carnival in the Caribbean, while her mother is away working in Canada. The manuscript for Malaika's Costume won the Helen Isobel Sissons Canadian Children's Story Award, which recognizes diversity in children's literature. The book also earned an Honourable Mention at the 2017 Américas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature, from the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs.

In a follow up, Malaika's Winter Carnival, the protagonist adapts to a new life in Canada. A Kirkus review of the book wrote that Hohn "contrasts Caribbean and Canadian cultures tenderly, with deep understanding of both".

In 2019, Hohn's picture book biography of Jamaican poet Louise Bennett Coverly, A Likkle Miss Lou, was published by Owlkids. It was named one of the best Canadian children's books of 2019 by CBC Books.