Diane Keating
Canadian writer (born 1940)
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Diane Keating is a Canadian writer.[1] She is most noted for her poetry collection No Birds or Flowers, which was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 1982 Governor General's Awards.[2] She published two further poetry collections in the 1980s,[3] as well as the career anthology The Year One: New and Selected Poems in 2001.[4]
In 1989, her short story "The Crying Out" was published in the Journey Prize anthology,[5] and in 1991, she was a Journey Prize finalist for her short story "The Salem Letters".[6] Both stories were excerpts from a novel in progress, which was originally slated for publication in 1992[7] but was withdrawn at that time and was not published until 2014.[8]
Born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she was educated at the University of Manitoba.[9]
Works
- In Dark Places (1978)
- No Birds or Flowers (1982)
- Mad Apples (1983)
- The Optic Heart (1984)
- The Year One: New and Selected Poems (2001)
- The Crying Out (2014)
