Catherine Owen (writer)
Catherine Owen is a Canadian writer and musician from Vancouver, British Columbia. She currently resides in New Westminster by the Fraser River.
Early life and education
She earned a bachelor's degree in 1999 and master's degree in English Literature in 2001 from Simon Fraser University.
Musical career
She is the singer/bassist for the metal band Grieve (formerly Medea).[1] She also created INHUMAN (2002-2010) and Helgrind (2008-2009) with her co-composer Chris Matzigkeit (1981-2010).
Poetry
She is the author of ten collections of poetry, among them 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.[2] Her poems are included in several recent anthologies such as Forcefield: 77 Women Poets of BC (Mothertongue Press, 2013) and 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.
Catherine Owen's work has been reviewed by Quill and Quire,[3] Urban Graffiti,[4] The Bull Calf Review,[5] Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review,[6][7] 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.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 coming out from Caitlin Press in late 2016.
Awards
- Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry in 2010
- Also nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award (1999) and the BC Book Prize (2002), along with the George Ryga Award and the Re-lit Prize (2006).
Bibliography
- 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)
- Designated Mourner (2014) from ECW Press (ISBN 9781770412033)
- Catalysts: Confrontations with the muse (2012) from Wolsak and Wynn (ISBN 9781894987592)
- Seeing Lessons (2010) from Wolsak and Wynn.
- Frenzy (2009) from Anvil Press (ISBN 9781897535004)
- Dog (2008) from Mansfield Press (ISBN 9781894469340)
- Fyre (2007) from Above Ground Press
- Shall: Ghazals (2006) from Wolsak and Wynn (ISBN 189498708X)
- Cusp/Detritus: An Experiment in Alleyways (2006) from Anvil Press (ISBN 1895636744)
- The Wrecks of Eden (2002) from Wolsak and Wynn (ISBN 0919897800)
- Somatic: The Life & Work of Egon Schiele (1998) from Wolsak and Wynn.
References
- ↑ "Interview with Medea". doom-metal.com. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
- ↑ "Alberta Literary Awards Finalists and Winners". Writers' Guild of Alberta. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
- ↑ Quill and Quire. Quill and Quire http://www.quillandquire.com/book-author/catherine-owen/. Retrieved 20 August 2015. Missing or empty
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(help) - ↑ McCawley, Mark. "The Other 23 & a Half Hours by Catherine Owen review by Mark McCawley". Urban Graffiti. Urban Graffiti. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- ↑ Cameron, Laura; Gélinas-Faucher, Claudine; Roussel, Renaud. "Seeing Lessons by Catherine Owen Review". The Bull Calf: Reviews of Fiction, Poetry, and Literary Criticism. The Bull Calf: Reviews of Fiction, Poetry, and Literary Criticism. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- ↑ Johnstone, Tiffany. "Language to Live By". Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review. Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- ↑ Shatford, Darlene. "Varied Voices". Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review. Retrieved 20 August 2015.