Ann Copeland

Ann Copeland is the pen name of Virginia Walsh Furtwangler (born December 16, 1932),^[1] an American and Canadian writer. She was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1989 Governor General's Awards for her short story collection The Golden Thread.^[2]

Ann Copeland
Born	Virginia Walsh (1932-12-16) December 16, 1932 (age 92) Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Occupation	Short story writer
Nationality	American, Canadian
Period	1970s-1990s
Notable works	The Golden Thread

Biography

Born and raised in Hartford, Connecticut,^[1] she was educated at the Catholic University of America and Cornell University.^[1] She married Albert Furtwangler in 1968, and moved to Sackville, New Brunswick, where Albert taught at Mount Allison University.^[1]

She has published five short story collections and an instructional guide to writing fiction.^[3]

She returned to the United States in 1996, and is currently a professor emeritus at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.^[3]

Selected works

• At Peace (1978)
• The Back Room (1979)
• Earthen Vessels (1984)
• The Golden Thread (1989)
• Strange Bodies on a Stranger Shore (1994)
• The ABCs of Writing Fiction (1996)
• Season of Apples (1996)

Awards and honors

• Shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1989 Governor General's Awards