# Rachel Lebowitz > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Rachel_Lebowitz > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Rachel_Lebowitz.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Lebowitz > Source revision: 1343999287 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Canadian writer (born 1975) This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Rachel Lebowitz" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this message) A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Please discuss further on the talk page. See our advice if the article is about you and read our scam warning in case someone asks for money to edit this article. (January 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Rachel Lebowitz Lebowitz in 2018 Born (1975-04-30) April 30, 1975 (age 51) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Occupation Writer Notable works Hannus, The Year of No Summer **Rachel Victoria Lebowitz** (born 30 April 1975)[1] is a Canadian writer. ## Biography She was born in [Vancouver](/source/Vancouver), [British Columbia](/source/British_Columbia), in 1975. After attending graduate school at [Concordia University](/source/Concordia_University_(Quebec)) in [Montreal](/source/Montreal), [Quebec](/source/Quebec),[2] she moved with her husband, [Zachariah Wells](/source/Zachariah_Wells), to [Halifax](/source/Halifax_Urban_Area), [Nova Scotia](/source/Nova_Scotia), in 2003. In 2006, Lebowitz and Wells moved to Vancouver, where Lebowitz enrolled in a teacher-training programme at [Simon Fraser University](/source/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.[3] It was shortlisted for the 2007 [Roderick Haig-Brown](/source/Roderick_Haig-Brown) Regional Prize and the [Edna Staebler Award](/source/Edna_Staebler_Award) for Creative Non-Fiction.[2][3][4] In 2008, she and Wells' children's book, *Anything But Hank!*, was published.[3] 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](/source/Kirkus_Reviews)* praised it as a "vivid, disquieting collage of prose pieces."[5] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [https://viaf.org/processed/LAC%7CLAC](https://viaf.org/processed/LAC%7CLAC)[*[dead link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot)*] Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 18 May 2015. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-con_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-con_2-1) ["Graduate Alumni"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110830000205/http://english.concordia.ca/graduate/graduatealumni/GradAlumniBios.php). *Department of English - Concordia University - Montreal, Quebec, Canada*. Archived from [the original](http://english.concordia.ca/graduate/graduatealumni/GradAlumniBios.php) on 2011-08-30. Retrieved 5 January 2011. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-vs_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-vs_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-vs_3-2) ["Special delivery"](https://web.archive.org/web/20121109175858/http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=6bfd81c7-61e9-439f-ab8c-25774fcaac99). *Vancouver Sun*. October 4, 2008. Archived from [the original](http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=6bfd81c7-61e9-439f-ab8c-25774fcaac99) on 2012-11-09. Retrieved 5 January 2011. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Vancouver's Caroline Adderson wins award for her fiction works"](https://web.archive.org/web/20070311080414/http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastlife/story.html?id=e6997c8b-316b-499d-a44a-02a6422b7a95). *Vancouver Sun*. March 8, 2007. Archived from [the original](http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastlife/story.html?id=e6997c8b-316b-499d-a44a-02a6422b7a95) on 2007-03-11. Retrieved 5 January 2011. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-kirkus_5-0)** ["The Year of No Summer"](https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/rachel-lebowitz/the-year-of-no-summer/). *Kirkus Reviews*. Retrieved 30 July 2021. ## External links - [Rachel Lebowitz](https://lccn.loc.gov/no2007014384) at the [Library of Congress](/source/Library_of_Congress), with 2 library catalogue records Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND WorldCat National United States Other Yale LUX This article about a Canadian writer or poet is a stub. 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