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| Shannon Cowan has published fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and travel writing. Her first book, Leaving Winter, was a B.C. Bestseller when it appeared in 2000, and allowed her to attend conferences as a guest presenter, reader, panellist, and book club visitor.
She was selected three times as a delegate to the former B.C. Festival of the Arts, and once appeared as the feature guest speaker at the Banff Book Discussion Weekend.
She has a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from the University of B.C. where she served one term as the Associate Editor of Prism International, and currently edits www.youngpoets.ca, The League of Canadian Poets web site for youth. Her writing has won the Eden Mills Literary Competition, the Norma Epstein Award, and was shortlisted for the CBC Literary Competition.
Presently she lives on Vancouver Island where she is co-editing a collection of creative nonfiction to be published by McGill Queen's University Press in the spring of 2008. Her novel for young adults
is due out with Lobster Press in the fall of 2007.
Publications
 
Books Hiking Vancouver Island. Globe Pequot Press, 2003. (A decisive look at 50 of the best hikes on Vancouver Island from Cape Scott to the Trans Canada Trail.) Leaving Winter. Oolichan Books, 2000 (An adult novel chronicling the lives of two women in North Vancouver, British Columbia, from 1919-1996.)
Anthologies
“The Survivalist,” Wayward Coast Anthology, Nanaimo, BC, 2004.
“Sketches of Hands,” Groundswell: The Best of Above/Ground Press 1993-2003, Broken Jaw Press, Fredericton, NB, 2003. “Ten (Pregnant Women in a Coastal Town),” Ten: A Celebratory Anthology, Above Ground Press, Ottawa, ON, 2003. “Shortages,” North by Northwit: An Anthology of New Canadian Humour, Black Moss Press, Windsor, ON, 2003. “The Woman in This Story,” The Fed Anthology, Anvil Press, Vancouver, BC, 2003.
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