Darlene Quaife

Darlene Alice Quaife (née Barry) (born September 1, 1948 in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian novelist. Her first novel, Bone Bird, won a 1990 Commonwealth Writers Prize, for Best First Book, Canada and the Caribbean.[1]

Quaife was educated at the University of Alberta, from which she received a Master of Arts degree in 1986.[2] She is a past president of the Writers' Guild of Alberta,[3] and a former director and founding member of Wordfest.[4]

She lives in Priddis, Alberta.[5]

Selected bibliography

• Bone Bird, Turnstone Press, 1989, ISBN 978-0-88801-133-6
• Days and Nights on the Amazon, Turnstone Press, 1994, ISBN 9780888011831
• Death Writes: A Curious Notebook - 1997; Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002, ISBN 978-1-55152-038-4
• Polar Circus, Turnstone Press, 2001, ISBN 0-88801-253-5

References

1. George Melnyk (1999). The Literary History of Alberta: From the end of the war to the end of the century. University of Alberta. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-88864-324-7. Darlene Quaife alberta.
2. https://era.library.ualberta.ca/public/view/item/uuid:8dd6e905-2e6a-465f-bba2-374466cccd88
3. "WGA Board of Directors Archive". WGA website. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
4. "Wordfest @ 20: Bringing writers and readers together for two decades". Calgary Herald website. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
5. http://www.arsenalpulp.com/contributorinfo.php?index=59