Cathleen With

Cathleen With ( * 1967 in British Columbia, Canada ) is a Canadian writer and teacher who has written short stories before all things, and honored for her first novel in 2010 with the belonging to the BC Book Prizes Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

Life

Born in British Columbia in 1967 Cathleen With studied at the University of British Columbia creative writing and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from. Due to their advanced training, she works as an English teacher in the adult and special education, while teaching them the basics of drama as a therapeutic basis. She prefers the socially inclusive school programs to work and spends her working as a part -time teacher in Vancouver, where she also traveled to Seoul to almost bring the children writing.

2005 led to the presented in Human Perspectives short story Carny on the shortlist for the Western Magazine Award. Her short story collection, skids, which was about street children from Vancouver in the area of ​​Davie Village and Down Down East Side, in 2007 was on the shortlist of Relit Awards. Her work has appeared in various literary journals such as The Antigonish Review, Grain and Fireweed. Although she is best known for her short stories, her first novel Having Faith in the Polar Girls could 'Prison, which was published by Penguin Canada in 2009, won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. In her work as skids they processed their own depression from the youth as well as their many years of experience with learning disabled and socially prominent young people and young homeless people.

Work

  • Detoxed. In: The Antigonish Review No.. 110, 1997
  • Hers Be Mine. In: Grain, Fall 1998
  • Jainfish. In: A Room of One 's Own Volume 21/4, 1999
  • Streets. In: Fireweed, Summer 1999
  • Pajamas. In: SUB- terrain, summer 2000
  • The Arbutus Tree. In: Love and Pomegranates ed. by Rona Murray, Garry McKevitt, 2000
  • Channih counts. In: A Room of One 's Own Volume 26/4 2003
  • Carny. In: The Humanist in Canada Issue 149, 2004
  • Guthrip. In: Geist, Issue 55, 2004
  • Long - Haired Dog Faced Girl. In: This Magazine 2005
  • Space Muppet. In: The Humanist in Canada 2005
  • Skids. Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver 2006
  • Having Faith in the Polar Girls ' Prison. Penguin Canada, Toronto 2009

Awards and nominations

  • 2005: shortlisted for the Western Magazine Awards for Carny
  • 2007: shortlisted for the awards for Relit Skids
  • 2010: Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for Having Faith in the Polar Girls ' Prison
2010 in literature Keath Fraser Keith Maillard Gayla Reid Marilyn Bowering Michael Turner (musician) Eden Robinson Madeleine Thien Carol Shields Pauline Holdstock Mary Novik Lee Henderson
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