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

Early life

Catherine Owen was born and raised in Vancouver, the eldest of five siblings. At age 11, a short story won a Catholic Schools writing contest.She began performing her poetry as a teenager. Owen now resides in Edmonton.[1]

Career

Her first work was published by Exile Editions in 1998. Since then, she has published 16 poetry, non-fiction and fiction books. She regularly reviews poetry and prose for Canadian publications.

As a musician she has played with the metal bands Inhuman and Helgrind and 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, Ms Lyric's Poetry Outlaws.[2] She has a web page called The Reading Queen, where she reads books for children.[3]

Publications

11 collections of poetry including The Wrecks of Eden (Wolsak and Wynn 2002), Frenzy (Anvil Press 2009), Trobairitz (Anvil Press 2012), Designated Mourner and Riven (ECW 2014 and 2020), Dear Ghost (Buckrider Books 2017) and her upcoming collection Moving to Delilah (Freehand Books 2024).

  • 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)

And several others.

Awards

Nominations

Individual poems have been shortlisted for the CBC Award, the Earle Birney Prize and ARC's Poem of the Year.[5]

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. ^ https://thebcreview.ca/2022/12/03/1653-owen-schneider-bergmann/
  2. ^ "Ms. Lyric's Poetry Outlaws". Spotify. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  3. ^ "The Reading Queen - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  4. ^ "Alberta Literary Awards Finalists and Winners". Writers' Guild of Alberta. Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  5. ^ https://www.anvilpress.com/Authors/catherine-owen
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