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Tricia Dower
BIO
Biography

Tricia Dower was a business executive before reinventing herself as a writer in 2002. Her novel, Becoming Lin (Caitlin Press, 2016) was a finalist in the City of Victoria Butler Prize. Her novel Stony River (Penguin Canada, 2012) was shortlisted for the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction. Her short-story collection, Silent Girl (Inanna, 2008), was long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature. She won first prize for fiction in The Malahat Review’s 2010 Open Season Awards and first prize for creative nonfiction in subTerrain’s 2015 Lush Triumphant Awards. Her work also has appeared in The New Quarterly, Room of One’s Own, Hemispheres, Cicada, NEO, Big Muddy, Event, Island Writer and Stories Less Spoken. A dual citizen of Canada and the United States, Dower lives and writes in Sidney, BC. Author website: www.triciadower.com.

ADDRESS
City: Sidney, Province/Territory: British Columbia
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AWARDS
Awards
Name
First Prize for fiction, Open Season Awards
Publication
Malahat Review
Year
2010
Name
First prize for creative nonfiction, Lush Triumphant Awards
Publication
subTerrain
Year
2015
Programs & Interests
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