About
Catherine Lang's Bio
Catherine studied creative writing at the University of Victoria during the 1980s, where she had the good fortune to study and learn from the likes of Jack Hodgins and Constance Rooke.
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In 1988 Catherine won the Penny Wise Journalism Scholarship to attend the journalism program at Langara College, after which she moved on to community newspaper reporting and freelance writing. These endeavours led to the publication of O'Bon in Chimunesu in 1996, creative non-fiction work about the former Japanese-Canadian community in Chemainus, BC.
O'Bon in Chimunesu won the Hubert Evans Nonfiction Award in 1997. Following a stint in the treaty negotiation biz for the provincial government in Victoria for 14 years, Catherine semi-retired to work as an editor of legislative debates. The mother of two grown children, she has written a memoir about her niece, Michelle Lang, the Calgary Herald journalist killed in Afghanistan in December 2009. Published by Caitlin Press, it's titled Embedded: The Irreconcilable Nature of War, Loss and Consequence and is currently available for purchase.