Catherine Bush is a Canadian

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Biography

Born in

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and educated at the

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, she attended

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, graduating with a

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in Comparative Literature. Her debut novel, ''Minus Time'' (1993), was shortlisted for the

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and the City of Toronto Book Award. It was also published in the U.S. and the U.K. ''The Rules of Engagement'' (HarperCollins, 2000), a national bestseller, was published internationally, shortlisted for the City of Toronto Book Award, and chosen as a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by the ''

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'' and ''

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''. ''Claire's Head'' (M&S, 2004) was shortlisted for the Trillium Award and chosen as a Best Book of the Year by ''The Globe and Mail''. "Accusation" (Goose Lane, 2013) was one of NOW magazine's Best Ten Books of 2013 and an Amazon.ca Best Book of the Year. Bush has taught Creative Writing at universities including Concordia and the University of Florida. She is an associate professor at the University of Guelph and since 2008 has been the Coordinator of the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA, located in Toronto. She has been Writer-in-Residence at McMaster University, the University of New Brunswick, the University of Alberta, and the University of Guelph and a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the

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in Provincetown. Most recently she was a Fiction Meets Science Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg/Institute of Advanced Study in Delmenhorst, Germany. She has written and spoken internationally about addressing the climate crisis in fiction. Her nonfiction has appeared in numerous publications including ''The Globe and Mail'' and ''The New York Times Magazine''.

Bibliography

* ''Minus Time'' (1993) * ''The Rules of Engagement'' (2000) * ''Claire's Head'' (2004) * ''Accusation'' (2013) * ''Blaze Island'' (2020)

Brett Josef Grubisic Brett Josef Grubisic (born 1963) is a Canadian author, editor, and sessional lecturer of English at the University of British Columbia. Education He obtained his bachelors and masters degrees from the University of Victoria (B.A., M.A.) and com ...

"Catherine Bush's 'atmospheric and dramatic' new novel "Blaze Island" offers a stormy future"
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'', August 27, 2020.

References

External links

Catherine Bush's website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bush, Catherine 1961 births Living people 20th-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian women writers Writers from Toronto Canadian women novelists