{{Short description|American and Canadian writer}} {{Infobox writer | name = Ann Copeland | birth_name = Virginia Walsh | image = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1932|12|16}} | birth_place = Hartford, Connecticut, United States | occupation = Short story writer | period = 1970s–1990s | nationality = American, Canadian | notableworks = ''The Golden Thread'' | spouse = | website = }} '''Ann Copeland''' is the pen name of '''Virginia Walsh Furtwangler''' (born December 16, 1932),<ref name=whnew>W. H. New, ''Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada''. University of Toronto Press, 2002. {{ISBN|0802007619}}. Entry "Copeland, Ann", p. 236.</ref> an American and Canadian writer. She was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1989 Governor General's Awards for her short story collection ''The Golden Thread''.<ref>"Three B.C. writers in running for awards". ''Vancouver Sun'', February 7, 1990.</ref>
==Biography== Born and raised in Hartford, Connecticut,<ref name=whnew /> she was educated at the Catholic University of America and Cornell University.<ref name=whnew /> She married Albert Furtwangler in 1968, and moved to Sackville, New Brunswick, where Albert taught at Mount Allison University.<ref name=whnew />
She has published five short story collections and an instructional guide to writing fiction.<ref name=international>''International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004''. Europa Publications, 2003. {{ISBN|978-1857431797}}. Entry "Furtwangler, Virginia Walsh", p. 192.</ref>
She returned to the United States in 1996, and is currently a professor emeritus at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.<ref name=international/>
==Selected works== *''At Peace'' (1978) *''The Back Room'' (1979) *''Earthen Vessels'' (1984) *''The Golden Thread'' (1989) *''Strange Bodies on a Stranger Shore'' (1994) *''The ABCs of Writing Fiction'' (1996) *''Season of Apples'' (1996)
==Awards and honours== * Shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1989 Governor General's Awards
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