Marion Quednau (born 1952) is a Canadian author, poet and children's writer who lives in British Columbia.[1] Her novel, The Butterfly Chair, won the 1987 Books in Canada First Novel Award.[2]
Born in Toronto, Ontario, she was educated at the University of Toronto.[3] She subsequently moved to Western Canada, working for the Winnipeg Free Press and later for the feminist magazine Branching Out before settling in British Columbia.[3]
She published the poetry collection Kissing: Selected Chronicles in 1999, for which she won the League of Canadian Poets Chapbook Award.[4] Her 2009 poem "Paradise, Later Years" won a gold medal for The Malahat Review, as well as winning the poetry category in the Canadian National Magazine Awards in 2010.[5] It was later the title poem for her second poetry collection, Paradise, Later Years (2018).[6]
She has also published the children's novel The Gift of Odin (2007),[7] and the short story collection Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road (2021).[8] Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road was shortlisted for the ReLit Award for short fiction in 2022.[9]