{{short description|Canadian writer (born 1975)}} {{Multiple issues| {{BLP sources|date=April 2012}} {{COI|date=January 2011}} }} {{Infobox writer | image =Rachel Lebowitz au Drawn & Quarterly sud (2018; cropped 2025).jpg | caption = Lebowitz in 2018 | notableworks = Hannus, The Year of No Summer | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|04|30}} | birth_place = [[Vancouver, British Columbia]], Canada | occupation = Writer }}
'''Rachel Victoria Lebowitz''' (born 30 April 1975)<ref>https://viaf.org/processed/LAC|LAC{{Dead link|date=March 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }} Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 18 May 2015.</ref> is a Canadian writer.
==Biography== She was born in [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]], in 1975. After attending graduate school at [[Concordia University (Quebec)|Concordia University]] in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]],<ref name="con">{{Cite web |url= http://english.concordia.ca/graduate/graduatealumni/GradAlumniBios.php |title=Graduate Alumni |work=Department of English - Concordia University - Montreal, Quebec, Canada |accessdate=5 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830000205/http://english.concordia.ca/graduate/graduatealumni/GradAlumniBios.php|archive-date=2011-08-30}}</ref> she moved with her husband, [[Zachariah Wells]], to [[Halifax Urban Area|Halifax]], [[Nova Scotia]], in 2003. In 2006, Lebowitz and Wells moved to Vancouver, where Lebowitz enrolled in a teacher-training programme at [[Simon Fraser University]].
Also in 2006, Lebowitz's first book, ''Hannus'', was published by Pedlar Press. ''Hannus'' is a biographical work about the life of Lebowitz's great-grandmother, Ida Hannus.<ref name="vs">{{Cite news |url= http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=6bfd81c7-61e9-439f-ab8c-25774fcaac99 |title=Special delivery |work=Vancouver Sun|date=October 4, 2008 |accessdate=5 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109175858/http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=6bfd81c7-61e9-439f-ab8c-25774fcaac99|archive-date=2012-11-09}}</ref> It was shortlisted for the 2007 [[Roderick Haig-Brown]] Regional Prize and the [[Edna Staebler Award]] for Creative Non-Fiction.<ref name=con/><ref name=vs/><ref>{{Cite news |url= http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastlife/story.html?id=e6997c8b-316b-499d-a44a-02a6422b7a95 |title=Vancouver's Caroline Adderson wins award for her fiction works |work=Vancouver Sun|date=March 8, 2007 |accessdate=5 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311080414/http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastlife/story.html?id=e6997c8b-316b-499d-a44a-02a6422b7a95|archive-date=2007-03-11}}</ref> In 2008, she and Wells' children's book, ''Anything But Hank!'', was published.<ref name=vs/> Her third book, ''Cottonopolis'', uses found and prose poems to tell the story of the cotton industry during the industrial revolution. It was published by Pedlar Press in Spring, 2013.
Lebowitz's fourth book, ''The Year of No Summer'', appeared in 2018. ''[[Kirkus Reviews]]'' praised it as a "vivid, disquieting collage of prose pieces."<ref name=kirkus>{{Cite web |url= https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/rachel-lebowitz/the-year-of-no-summer/ |title=The Year of No Summer |work=Kirkus Reviews |accessdate=30 July 2021 }}</ref>
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==External links== * {{LCAuth|no2007014384|Rachel Lebowitz|2|ue}}
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