Marion Quednau is a Canadian author, poet and children's writer who lives in Mission, British Columbia

Mission, British Columbia

Mission, the core of which was formerly known as Mission City, is a district municipality in the province of British Columbia, Canada. It is situated on the north bank of the Fraser River overlooking the City of Abbotsford and with that city is part of the Central Fraser Valley. Mission is the...

. Her novel, The Butterfly Chair, won the 1987 Books in Canada First Novel Award

Books in Canada First Novel Award

The Amazon.ca First Novel Award, formerly the Books in Canada First Novel Award, is a literary award given annually to the best first novel in English published the previous year by a citizen or resident of Canada. It has been awarded since 1976....

. Her first children's novel, The Gift of Odin, was published in 2007. Quednau is also an accomplished poet, whose 2009 poem, Paradise, Later Years won a gold medal for The Malahat Review

The Malahat Review

The Malahat Review is a Canadian quarterly literary magazine established in 1967. It features contemporary Canadian and international works of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction as well as reviews of recently published Canadian literature...

, which entered Quednau's work in the poetry category for the Canadian National Magazine Awards.