Marilyn Bowering:
Contributor Banff Centre Press
Marilyn Bowering was born in Winnipeg but spent most of her childhood in Victoria. She continues to live in BC, and is married with one daughter. Her first book, set in Newfoundland, combined lyric poems, prose, and photographs. Subsequent early works explored BC’s coastal landscape and mythology or were informed by her years in Greece and Scotland. Bowering has written two Governor General Award nominated books of poetry, The Sunday Before Winter and Autobiography. Autobiography also brought her the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. She wrote a number of narrative works dramatized for radio that garnered nominations for awards, such as the Prix Italia and the Sony Prize. Her first major novel, To All Appearances A Lady, was published in the US, Canada, and the UK to great acclaim. Visible Worlds, her second novel, won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and was short-listed for the Orange Prize. Her third novel, Cat’s Pilgrimage, came out in 2004.