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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 of 1990. Her second novel, Visible Worlds (1997), was shortlisted for the prestigious Orange Prize, nominated for the Dublin IMPAC Prize, and awarded the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Visible Worlds was praised by The Independent as “a tour de force … a wonderful piece of storytelling” and by The New York Times Book Review as “a vast, sprawling feast of a book.” Marilyn Bowering's third novel, Cat's Pilgrimage, is a psychological map in the form of an album of human and animal stories. What it Takes to Be Human (Penguin Fall 2006) is also a map—of survival in a world where human qualities are increasingly under threat. Her new book of poems, Green, is published by Exile Editions.

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