Eowyn Ivey

Eowyn Ivey is a Pulitzer Prize finalist author. Educated at Western Washington University, Ivey was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2013 for her debut novel The Snow Child.

Ivey was raised in Alaska. Her mother named her after Éowyn, a character from Lord of the Rings.

She was a newspaper reporter before working as a bookseller. Her first novel The Snow Child, is set in 1920s Alaska. The book is centred around a couple called Jack and Mabel who begin seeing a girl running through the Alaskan wilderness after they sculpt a child out of snow.

Her second book, To the Bright Edge of the World is set in 1885 and also in Alaska. The story is told through journal entries, military reports, letters and documents. The plot follows an expedition funded by the US government into the Alaskan wilderness.

Ivey has also written essays which have appeared in publications such as The Observer, Alaska Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, Woman & Home, and Wall Street Journal.

She lives in Alaska with her husband and two children.

• 2012 - Specsavers National Book Awards for International Author of the Year for The Snow Child
• 2013 - Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Snow Child
• 2013 - Indies Choice Book Awards for Adult debut book of the year for The Snow Child