Catherine Owen (writer)

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Catherine Owen is a Canadian poet, writer, and performer.

Early life

Catherine Owen, the eldest of five siblings was born and raised in Vancouver. At 11, her short story won a Catholic school writing contest. As a teenager, Owen wrote and performed public readings of her poetry. Owen currently resides in Edmonton, Alberta. ^[1]

Career

In 1998, her first work was published by Exile Editions. Since then, she has published a number of literary, non-fiction and poetry works. She regularly reviews poetry for Canadian publications.^{[ citation needed ]}

Owen runs the performance series 94th Street Trobairitz, and hosts a podcast named Ms Lyric's Poetry Outlaws. ^[2] She has a web series named The Reading Queen, about literature aimed at children.^{[ citation needed ]}

Publications

• The Other 23 and a Half Hours or Everything You Wanted To Know That Your MFA Didn't Teach You (Wolsak & Wynn, 2015)^{[ citation needed ]}
• The Day of the Dead, a collection of short stories (Caitlin Press, 2016)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Locations of Grief: an emotional geography, an anthology of Canadian grief memoirs (Wolsak & Wynn, 2020)^{[ citation needed ]}
• The Life and Work of Egon Schiele (Exile Editions, 1998)

Awards

• Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry in 2010. ^[3]

Nominations

• Gerald Lampert Award (1999) ^{[ citation needed ]}
• BC Book Prize (2002) ^{[ citation needed ]}
• George Ryga Award ^{[ citation needed ]}
• Re-lit Prize (2006, 2018) ^{[ citation needed ]}
• Pat Lowther Award (2018) ^{[ citation needed ]}

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).

References

1. Bell, Justin (2024-04-11). "Writer Catherine Owen explores move to Edmonton in new poetry collection" . Retrieved 2025-03-26.
2. "Ms Lyric's Poetry Outlaws podcast on Spotify". Spotify. Retrieved 2025-01-09.
3. "Alberta Literary Awards Finalists and Winners". Writers' Guild of Alberta. Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 18 August 2015.