Thea Bowering

Thea Bowering (1971–) was born in Vancouver. She now lives in Edmonton where she works as a writing instructor at Concordia University of Edmonton, sits on the board of NeWest Press, and is a member of The Olive Reading Series collective. In 2014, her story collection Love at Last Sight won the Alberta Book Publishing Award for Trade Fiction Book of the Year and was long-listed for the Alberta Readers’ Choice Award. Over the past few years, she’s turned from short fiction to creative non-fiction and longform bio-fiction that engages her family history.