Darlene Quaife

Template:Short description 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Quaife was educated at the University of Alberta, from which she received a Master of Arts degree in 1986.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> She is a past president of the Writers' Guild of Alberta,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and a former director and founding member of Wordfest.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

She lives in Priddis, Alberta.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Selected bibliography

• Bone Bird, Turnstone Press, 1989, Template:ISBN
• Days and Nights on the Amazon, Turnstone Press, 1994, Template:ISBN
• Death Writes: A Curious Notebook - 1997; Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002, Template:ISBN
• Polar Circus, Turnstone Press, 2001, Template:ISBN