Shannon Cowan

Shannon Cowan received her Masters in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. Her first novel, Leaving Winter, was published in 2000. She won the Eden Mills Literary Prize in 2002, was shortlisted for the CBC Literary Competition, and received the Norma Epstein Award for Creative Writing for Tin Angel. Cowan lives in Errington, BC (on Vancouver Island), and she edits the website youngpoets.ca.

Shannon Cowan received her Masters in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. Her first novel, Leaving Winter, was published in 2000. She won the Eden Mills Literary Prize in 2002, was shortlisted for the CBC Literary Competition, and received the Norma Epstein Award for Creative Writing for Tin Angel. Cowan lives in Errington, BC (on Vancouver Island), and she edits the website youngpoets.ca. See less