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Cathleen With
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Cathleen With is a writer from Vancouver, and a graduate of the UBC MFA Creative Writing program. She has traveled extensively in SE Asia where she has worked as a teacher for Korean children, Khmer NGO workers, and Thai street children. She lives in Vancouver.
E-mail: c/o Writers' Union of Canada
Phone number:
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Publications
Skids. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2006
Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison. Penguin Group, 2009
Awards
(short-listed) Relit Award for Skids, 2007
(short-listed) Western Magazine Award for Humanist Perspectives ("Carny"), 2005
Winner, Ethel Wilson Fiction Award, BC Book Prize for Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison, 2010
Links:
Website
Eligible for National Public Readings Program :
Yes
