Dierdre Dwyer has her Masters in English and Creative Writing and has also studied at the Banff School of Fine Arts. She taught ESL in Japan for three years and left there to travel through Asia and Europe. She lives on the eastern shore of Nova Scotia now with her husband and is a tutor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
Awards
Honourable Mention, 8th Short Grain Contest for "Sayonara"
Honourable Mention in Fiddleheads Dress Code Letter, 1997 Contest
for "This Design of the World".
Honourable Mention, 5th Short Grain Contest for "Thieves
of a Nowhere Time", 1993
The Adele Wiseman Scholarship, the Banff Centre, 1995
Nova Scotia Talent Trust Scholarship, Aug. 1995
Scholarship to attend the Maritime Writers' Workshop, July 1993
Selected Publications
The Breath that Lightens the Body. (Beach Holme, 1999)
Selected Anthologies
Words Out There. (Roseway, 1999)
Meltwater. (Banff Centre, 1999).
The Last Word. (Insomniac Press, 1995).
Books in Print
Dwyer, Dierdre
The Breath that Lightens the Body. (Beach Holme, 1999)
0-88878-394-9 $12.95
Dierdre Dwyer, 16 MacDonald Lane,Musquodoboit Harbour, NS, B0J 2L0; Phone: 902-889-2429