Catherine Owen (writer)
Catherine Owen is a Canadian poet, writer, and performer.
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Early life
Catherine Owen was born and raised in Vancouver, where she spent her childhood as the eldest of five siblings. At age 11, her short story won a Catholic Schools writing contest. As a teenager, Owen wrote and performed public readings of her poetry. Owen currently resides in Edmonton.[1]
Career
Her first work was published by Exile Editions in 1998. Since then, she has published a number of literary, non-fiction and poetry works. She regularly reviews poetry for Canadian publications.
As a musician she has played with the metal bands Inhuman and Helgrind and has a solo project called Grieve. She has also performed several one woman plays.
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.[3]
Publications
- The Other 23 and a Half Hours or Everything You Wanted To Know That Your MFA Didn't Teach You (Wolsak & Wynn, 2015)
- The Day of the Dead, a collection of short stories (Caitlin Press, 2016)
- Locations of Grief: an emotional geography, an anthology of Canadian grief memoirs (Wolsak & Wynn, 2020)
Awards
Nominations
- Gerald Lampert Award (1999)
- BC Book Prize (2002)
- George Ryga Award
- Re-lit Prize (2006, 2018)
- Pat Lowther Award (2018)
Individual poems have been shortlisted for the CBC Award, the Earle Birney Prize and ARC's Poem of the Year.[5]
Bibliography
- Locations of Grief: An Emotional Geography (2020) from Wolsak & Wynn
- Riven (2020) from ECW Press
- Dear Ghost (2017) from Buckrider Books
- The Day of the Dead (2016) from Caitlin Press
- 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)
- Trobairitz (2012) from Anvil Press (ISBN 978-1-897535-97-4)
- 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 Exile Editions (ISBN 1550962345).
References
- https://thebcreview.ca/2022/12/03/1653-owen-schneider-bergmann/
- "Ms. Lyric's Poetry Outlaws". Spotify. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
- "The Reading Queen - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
- "Alberta Literary Awards Finalists and Winners". Writers' Guild of Alberta. Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
- https://www.anvilpress.com/Authors/catherine-owen