Biography
Lenore Rowntree is an award-winning writer based in British Columbia. She grew up and was educated in Toronto, before moving to Vancouver where she practiced law, and taught at the university and high school level. She began painting and exhibiting in the 1990s, and thought she had averted a potential career crisis when she decided to take her MFA in creative writing and become a full-time writer. She loves to write but finds she still scribbles at law and mucks with paint, so the crisis by necessity is downgraded to a potential collision.
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Her short stories and poetry have been published several literary journals and magazines, as well as in the anthologies Best Canadian Poetry 2010 published by Tightrope Books and Poet to Poet published by Guernica Editions in 2012. Her personal essays and creative non-fiction have been published in Geist Magazine, The Tyee, The Globe and Mail, and the Vancouver Courier. Her self-illustrated poetry collection for children Love Letters won a gold medal in 2007 from the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards. She was nominated for the CBC Literary Award in creative non-fiction in 2009, and her play The Woods at Tender Creek was produced as part of the Walking Fish Festival in 2010.
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