Darlene Quaife Explained

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,
• Days and Nights on the Amazon, Turnstone Press, 1994,
• Death Writes: A Curious Notebook - 1997; Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002,
• Polar Circus, Turnstone Press, 2001,

Notes and References

1. Book: The Literary History of Alberta: From the end of the war to the end of the century. registration. 39. Darlene Quaife alberta.. George Melnyk. George Melnyk. University of Alberta. 1999. 978-0-88864-324-7 .
2. Beyond the island. 10.7939/R3Z31NZ5S. 1986. Quaife. Darlene A..
3. Web site: WGA Board of Directors Archive . WGA website . 21 January 2019.
4. Web site: Wordfest @ 20: Bringing writers and readers together for two decades . Calgary Herald website . 22 January 2019.
5. Web site: Arsenal Pulp Press Contributor Info Page . www.arsenalpulp.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100917124531/http://arsenalpulp.com/contributorinfo.php?index=59 . 2010-09-17.