Occupation short story writer Name Ann Copeland Notable works The Golden Thread | Period 1970s-1990s Nationality American-Canadian Role Writer | |
Books Strange bodies on a strange, Season of Apples, Punished with a Sixpence, The ABC's of Writing Fiction, The Golden Thread | ||
Ann Copeland is the pen name of Virginia Walsh Furtwangler (born December 16, 1932 in Hartford, Connecticut), an American-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.
Born and raised in Hartford, Connecticut as Virginia Walsh, she was educated at the Catholic University of America and Cornell University. She married Allan Furtwangler in 1968, and moved to Sackville, New Brunswick to teach at Mount Allison University.
She has published five short story collections and an instructional guide to writing fiction.
She returned to the United States in 1996, and is currently a professor emeritus at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.