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Annabel Lyon

ANNABEL LYON published her first book, Oxygen, a collection of stories, in 2000. The Best Thing for You, a collection of three novellas, followed in 2004. Her first novel, The Golden Mean, was published in 2009 and won the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize. Her second novel, The Sweet Girl, a companion to The Golden Mean, was published in fall 2012. Imagining Ancient Women, the text of her Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture, was published the same year. She won the Engel-Findley award for a body of work in 2015. Her latest novel, Consent, was published in fall 2020. A professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, she is also currently the Director of the School of Creative Writing.
The Sweet Girl
The Golden Mean

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The Sweet Girl
The Golden Mean

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