Rachel Lebowitz

Rachel Lebowitz (b. 1975 Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian writer.

Biography

She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1975. After attending graduate school at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec[1] she moved with her husband, Zachariah Wells, to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2003. In 2006, Lebowitz and Wells moved to Vancouver, where Lebowitz enrolled in a teacher-training programme at Simon Fraser University.

Also in 2006, Lebowitz's book Hannus was published by Pedlar Press. Hannus is a biographical work about the life of Lebowitz's great-grandmother, Ida Hannus.[2] It was shortlisted for the 2007 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize and the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction.[2][3][1] In 2008, she and Wells' children's book, "Anything But Hank!" was published.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "Graduate Alumni". Department of English - Concordia University - Montreal, Quebec, Canada. http://english.concordia.ca/graduate/graduatealumni/GradAlumniBios.php. Retrieved 5 January 2011. 
  2. ^ a b c "Special delivery". Vancouver Sun. October 4, 2008. http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=6bfd81c7-61e9-439f-ab8c-25774fcaac99. Retrieved 5 January 2011. 
  3. ^ "Vancouver's Caroline Adderson wins award for her fiction works". Vancouver Sun. March 8, 2007. http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastlife/story.html?id=e6997c8b-316b-499d-a44a-02a6422b7a95. Retrieved 5 January 2011.