Rachel Victoria Lebowitz (born 30 April 1975) is a

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writer.

Biography

She was born in

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in 1975. After attending graduate school at

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she moved with her husband,

Zachariah Wells Zachariah Wells (born 10 September 1976)https://viaf.org/processed/LAC, 1013A1476 Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 2015-05-18. is a Canadian poet, critic, essayist and editor. Wells was born Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island and was rais ...

, to Halifax,

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in 2003. In 2006, Lebowitz and Wells moved to Vancouver, where Lebowitz enrolled in a teacher-training programme at

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. Also in 2006, Lebowitz's first book, ''Hannus'', was published by Pedlar Press. ''Hannus'' is a biographical work about the life of Lebowitz's great-grandmother, Ida Hannus. It was shortlisted for the 2007

Roderick Haig-Brown Roderick Langmere Haig-Brown (February 21, 1908 – October 9, 1976) was a Canadian writer and conservationist. Early life Haig-Brown was born in Lancing, Sussex, England. His father, Alan Haig-Brown, was a teacher and a prolific write ...

Regional Prize and the

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for Creative Non-Fiction. In 2008, she and Wells' children's book, ''Anything But Hank!'', was published. Her third book, ''Cottonopolis'', uses found and prose poems to tell the story of the cotton industry during the industrial revolution. It was published by Pedlar Press in Spring, 2013. Lebowitz's fourth book, ''The Year of No Summer'', appeared in 2018. '' Kirkus Reviews'' praised it as a "vivid, disquieting collage of prose pieces."

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* 1975 births Living people Writers from Vancouver 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian women biographers 21st-century Canadian biographers Canadian women non-fiction writers {{Canada-writer-stub