Marilyn Bowering

Marilyn Bowering has received many awards for her writing (both poetry and fiction) including the Pat Lowther Award, the Dorothy Livesay Prize and several National Magazine awards.  Her work has been short-listed for the Governor General's Prize and for significant international awards including the Dublin Impac Award, the Orange Prize, the Sony Award and the Prix Italia. She was a 2008 Fulbright Scholar at New York University and currently teaches at Vancouver Island University. Her most recent books are Green (poetry) and What It Takes To Be Human (novel.). At present she is at work on an opera project with the composer Gavin Bryars.  A new book of poems, Soul Mouth, will be published in 2012.

Marilyn Bowering lives near Sooke, B.C. 

www.marilynbowering.com