page_title: Siobhan Dowd
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Siobhan Dowd / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: St Margaret's parish church, Binsey, Oxfordshire, seen from the east
context_page_description: Siobhan Dowd was a British writer and activist. The last book she completed, Bog Child, posthumously won the 2009 Carnegie Medal from the professional librarians, recognising the year's best book for children or young adults published in the U.K.
context_section_description: Dowd was married twice. Her first marriage broke down in the early 1990s and she subsequently moved to New York City, where she worked for PEN American Center. Dowd spent seven years in New York until she returned to London in 1997, to spend more time with her family. In 2000 she met Geoff Morgan, a librarian at Oxford Brookes University. They married in March 2001 in Wales.
  In September 2004, Dowd was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer. In spite of this, she continued to write prolifically. In her last year of life she developed a friendship with the children's author Meg Rosoff, who had also been diagnosed with breast cancer.
caption: St Margaret's Church, Binsey, Oxford, where Siobhan Dowd is buried.
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