diana fitzgerald bryden

Diana
Fitzgerald Bryden

Diana Fitzgerald Bryden was born in London, England and moved to Canada as a teenager. She has written two books of poetry, Learning Russian (Mansfield Press, 2000), which was nominated for the Pat Lowther Award, and Clinic Day (Brick Books, 2004). Her fiction and non-fiction have been short-listed for the K.M. Hunter Award, the CBC Literary Contest, and the Prism Short Fiction Contest. No Place Strange is her first novel. Diana writes reviews and essays on topics that range from Moammar Ghaddafi to Christopher Logue’s reimagining of The Iliad.

Diana Fitzgerald Bryden was born in London, England and moved to Canada as a teenager. She has written two books of poetry, Learning Russian (Mansfield Press, 2000), which was nominated for the Pat Lowther Award, and Clinic Day (Brick Books, 2004). Her fiction and non-fiction have been short-listed for the K.M. Hunter Award, the CBC Literary Contest, and the Prism Short Fiction Contest. No Place Strange is her first novel. Diana writes reviews and essays on topics that range from Moammar Ghaddafi to Christopher Logue’s reimagining of The Iliad.

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