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Shannon Cowan

Shannon Cowan

Former Editor, Eartheasy
Six acres on Vancouver Island, British Columbia · USDA zone 8b

Shannon Cowan was Eartheasy's editor for over a decade. She is a published novelist — her young-adult novel Tin Angel was a finalist for the Geoffrey Bilson Award — and gardens six acres on Vancouver Island.

Role
Editor, 2013–2024
Articles
115
Where
Six acres, Vancouver Island
Books published
Four, since 2000
Biography

Shannon Cowan came to Eartheasy as a writer and stayed as its editor, planning and commissioning the site's content for more than a decade. Before that, she was a novelist.

Her debut, Leaving Winter, was published by Oolichan Books in 2000 and reached the BC bestseller list. Tin Angel, a young-adult novel set in British Columbia in 1969, followed from Lobster Press in 2007 and was named a finalist for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People. She co-wrote Hiking Vancouver Island for Falcon Guides and co-edited Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood for McGill-Queen's University Press.

Away from the desk she hikes, paddles, plays the fiddle, and has a weakness for vintage typewriters and letterpress printing.

Where they garden

Six acres, two families, one piece of land

She works six acres of alder bottom on Vancouver Island with her husband and daughters, sharing the land with a second household — two families turning semi-rural brush into a working farm.

There is a poultry flock, an orchard, and a mixed ornamental and edible garden.

Background

Credentials and education

  • Master's in Creative Writing University of British Columbia
  • Art degree University of Guelph
  • Writing Studio, 1998 The Banff Centre
Elsewhere

Books and recognition

  • Leaving Winter — novel Oolichan Books, 2000 · ISBN 9780889821866 · BC bestseller list
  • Hiking Vancouver Island Falcon Guides / Globe Pequot, 2003, with Lissa Cowan · ISBN 9780762723508
  • Tin Angel — young-adult novel Lobster Press, 2007 · ISBN 9781897073681 · set in British Columbia in 1969
  • Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008, co-editor · ISBN 9780773533776
  • Finalist, Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People 2008, for Tin Angel
  • Eden Mills Literary Prize, 2002 · Norma Epstein Award, 2002 · CBC Literary Competition shortlist, 2002
  • Tin Angel — Quill & Quire Best Books of the Year, starred review Also rated Highly Recommended in CM: Canadian Review of Materials
  • Editorial Coordinator, youngpoets.ca A project of the League of Canadian Poets

Articles by Shannon Cowan

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