Diane Keating is a Canadian writer. 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
This is a list of recipients and nominees of the Governor General's Awards award for English-language poetry. The award was created in 1981 when the Governor General's Award for English language poetry or drama was divided.1982 Governor General's Awards. She published two further poetry collections in the 1980s, as well as the career anthology ''The Year One: New and Selected Poems'' in 2001.
In 1989, her short story "The Crying Out" was published in the
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anthology, and in 1991, she was a Journey Prize finalist for her short story "The Salem Letters". Both stories were excerpts from a novel in progress, which was originally slated for publication in 1992 but was withdrawn at that time and was not published until 2014.
Born and raised in
Winnipeg
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,
Manitoba
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, she was educated at the
University of Manitoba
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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)