Rachel Lebowitz

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Rachel Lebowitz
Rachel Lebowitz au Drawn & Quarterly sud (2018; cropped 2025).jpg
Lebowitz in 2018
Born (1975-04-30) April 30, 1975 (age 49)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
OccupationWriter
Notable worksHannus, The Year of No Summer

Rachel Victoria Lebowitz (born 30 April 1975) [1] is a Canadian writer.

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Biography

She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1975. After attending graduate school at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec [2] she moved with her husband, Zachariah Wells, to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2003. In 2006, Lebowitz and Wells moved to Vancouver, where Lebowitz enrolled in a teacher-training programme at Simon Fraser University.

Also in 2006, Lebowitz's first book, Hannus, was published by Pedlar Press. Hannus is a biographical work about the life of Lebowitz's great-grandmother, Ida Hannus. [3] It was shortlisted for the 2007 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize and the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. [2] [3] [4] In 2008, she and Wells' children's book, Anything But Hank!, was published. [3] Her third book, Cottonopolis, uses found and prose poems to tell the story of the cotton industry during the industrial revolution. It was published by Pedlar Press in Spring, 2013.

Lebowitz's fourth book, The Year of No Summer, appeared in 2018. Kirkus Reviews praised it as a "vivid, disquieting collage of prose pieces." [5]

References

  1. ↑ https://viaf.org/processed/LAC%7CLAC Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Graduate Alumni". Department of English - Concordia University - Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
  3. 1 2 3 "Special delivery". Vancouver Sun. October 4, 2008. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
  4. ↑ "Vancouver's Caroline Adderson wins award for her fiction works". Vancouver Sun. March 8, 2007. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
  5. ↑ "The Year of No Summer". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 30 July 2021.


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