Catherine Owen is a Canadian author from Vancouver who now lives in Edmonton.

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Career

She is the author of ten collections of poetry, among them Riven (ECW, 2020), Dear Ghost (Buckrider Books, 2017), Designated Mourner (ECW Press, 2014), Trobairitz (Anvil Press, 2012), Seeing Lessons (Wolsak & Wynn 2010), and Frenzy (Anvil Press, 2009), which also won the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry in 2010.[1] Her poems are included in national and international periodicals and several recent anthologies such as Forcefield: 77 Women Poets of BC (Mothertongue Press, 2013) while she has creative non-fiction work in This Place a Stranger: Canadian Women Travelling Alone (Caitlin Press, 2014). Stories have appeared in Urban Graffiti, Memewar Magazine, Lit n Image (US) and TORONTO Quarterly.

Owen's work has been reviewed by Quill and Quire,[2] Urban Graffiti,[3] The Bull Calf Review,[4] Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review,[5][6] while also being the subject for the academic paper entitled Catherine Owen’s “Dodo” as Animal Rights Theory by Terry Trowbridge, published in Ariel: A Review of International English Literature from the University of Calgary, and another essay, Catherine Owen's "Severance Package" and the Limits of Ecological History also by Trowbridge, published in Rampike from the University of Windsor. She has also published a volume of essays and memoirs called Catalysts: Confrontations with the Muse (Wolsak & Wynn, 2012), edited a collection of interviews and writing practices known as The Other 23 and a Half Hours or Everything You Wanted To Know That Your MFA Didn't Teach You (Wolsak & Wynn, 2015) and has a compilation of short stories/sliver fictions called The Day of the Dead, out from Caitlin Press in 2016. In 2020, Wolsak and Wynn has released her anthology of grief memoirs by 24 Canadian writers titled Locations of Grief: an emotional geography. Her reviews of poetry books can be found on Marrow Reviews, Canadian Literature, The Malahat and CNQ. As a musician she has released CDs with the metal bands Inhuman and Helgrind and a vinyl through her solo project Grieve. She has also performed three one woman plays, collaborates with multi-media artists, runs the performance series 94th Street Trobairitz, hosts Ms Lyric's Poetry Outlaws, a Spotify podcast and The Reading Queen, a kidlit channel on YouTube. She has a Masters degree in English Literature.

Awards

• Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry in 2010
• Nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award (1999) and the BC Book Prize (2002), along with the George Ryga Award, the Re-lit Prize (2006, 2018) and the Pat Lowther Award (2018). Individual poems have been shortlisted for the CBC Award, the Earle Birney Prize and ARC's Poem of the Year.

Bibliography

1. Locations of Grief: An Emotional Geography (2020) from Wolsak & Wynn
2. 'Riven (2020) from ECW Press
3. Dear Ghost (2017) from Buckrider Books
4. The Day of the Dead (2016) from Caitlin Press
5. The Other 23 & a Half Hours: Or Everything You Wanted to Know that Your MFA Didn’t Teach You (2015) from Wolsak and Wynn (ISBN 9781928088004)
6. Designated Mourner (2014) from ECW Press (ISBN 9781770412033)
7. Trobairitz (2012) from Anvil Press (ISBN 978-1-897535-97-4)
8. Catalysts: Confrontations with the muse (2012) from Wolsak and Wynn (ISBN 9781894987592)
9. Seeing Lessons (2010) from Wolsak and Wynn.
10. Frenzy (2009) from Anvil Press (ISBN 9781897535004)
11. Dog (2008) from Mansfield Press (ISBN 9781894469340)
12. Fyre (2007) from Above Ground Press
13. Shall: Ghazals (2006) from Wolsak and Wynn (ISBN 189498708X)
14. Cusp/Detritus: An Experiment in Alleyways (2006) from Anvil Press (ISBN 1895636744)
15. The Wrecks of Eden (2002) from Wolsak and Wynn (ISBN 0919897800)
16. Somatic: The Life & Work of Egon Schiele (1998) from Exile Editions (ISBN 1550962345).

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