Moving between diary entries, essays, poetry and photographs, Owen shares her path from her struggles with housing as a young mother to the security she now feels. Sixteen Homes moves through the many places Owen has lived, considering what these types of experiences mean for our ideas of belonging. All along she invites the reader to consider what it is that turns a house into a home and who it is that gets to have one.

Catherine Owen, from Vancouver, now resides in Edmonton. She is the author of 17 collections of poetry and prose. Her most recent book of poems, Moving to Delilah, was nominated for both the Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize and the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize. She teaches Poetic Forms at Concordia, and edits, reviews and runs the Impromptu Series. (Wolsak & Wynn Publishers)