Sharon Bala (born April 3, 1979) is a Canadian writer residing in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Her debut novel, The Boat People, won the 2015 Percy Janes First Novel Award for unpublished manuscripts, and was published by McClelland and Stewart and Doubleday in January 2018. The book was internationally publicized as part of Penguin Random House's One World, One Book campaign.