Annabel Lyon

Annabel Lyon (born 1971) is a Canadian novelist and short-story writer. She has published two collections of short fiction, two young adult novels, and two adult historical novels, The Golden Mean and its sequel, The Sweet Girl.

Life and work Born in Brampton, Ontario, Lyon grew up in Coquitlam, British Columbia, where she and her family moved when she was a year old. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy at Simon Fraser University and an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Of the three, she won the Rogers Prize. The book has been translated into six languages. A sequel, The Sweet Girl, which explores the life of Aristotle's daughter, Pythias, was published in September 2012.

Her novel Consent was longlisted for the Giller Prize in 2020.

In 2021, former UBC professor Steven Galloway lodged defamation lawsuits against Lyon and over 20 others on the grounds that they had helped perpetuate false allegations of sexual assault and misconduct against him in 2015. After an extensive pre-trial process she reached a confidential settlement with Galloway in 2026, a few months before the trial was due to proceed.

She lives in New Westminster, British Columbia, one of 13 cities in Metro Vancouver.

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