Annabel Lyon

Annabel Lyon’s first book, the short-story collection Oxygen, was nominated for the Danuta Gleed and ReLit awards. Her second collection, The Best Thing for You, was nominated for the Ethel Wilson Prize for Fiction. Her first novel for adults is The Golden Mean which  held the distinction of being the only book nominated that year for all three of Canada's major fiction prizes: the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.  Of the three, she won the Rogers Prize. In addition to creative writing, Annabel Lyon has studied music, philosophy, and law. She lives in New Westminster, B.C., with her husband and two children.