MARILYN BOWERING is an award-winning novelist, poet and playwright whose first novel, To All Appearances a Lady, was a New York Times Notable Book. Her second novel, Visible Worlds, was shortlisted for the prestigious Orange Prize, nominated for the Dublin IMPAC Prize and awarded the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

Bowering was born in Winnipeg and grew up in Victoria, B.C. She has lived in the United States, Greece, Scotland, Spain, and Canada, and now makes her home in Sooke, British Columbia.