Catherine Owen is the author of nine collections of poetry, the most recent being Trobairitz, Seeing Lessons, Frenzy, and the chapbook Steve Kulash & Other Autopsies. Her collection of memoirs and essays is called Catalysts: confrontations with the muse. Frenzy won the Alberta Book Prize and other collections have been nominated for the B.C. Book Prize, the ReLit, the CBC Literary Prize, and the George Ryga Award. Owen lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.