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DIANNE HICKS MORROW

Author of Kindred Spirits (Non-Fiction) and Long Reach Home (Poetry)

Dianne Hicks Morrow is a poet who draws on rich connections both to Atlantic Canada's islands and its mainland. She was conceived in Newfoundland, married a Prince Edward Islander, and gave birth to two Islanders. She knows she may never qualify as an Islander but would not, in any case, trade in her mainland roots and relations. She was born and raised in St. John, New Bruncswick, and graduated from UNB in Frederiction. She taught high school in Vancouver before moving back east to the farmhouse she shares with her husband Andrew on Prince Edward Island's North Shore.

Her first book of poetry, Long Reach Home, draws on these experiences and landscapes. Her poems have appeared in The Abegweit Review, Common Ground, Contemporary Verse 2, Pottersfield Portfolio, and the Windsor Review, as well as in A Woman's Almanac: Voices from Atlantic Canada, Enchanted Companions, Stories of Dolls in Our Lives, Landmarks, and A Bountiful Harvest. Her poems have also been broadcast on CBC Radio's Island Morning, MainStreet, Information Morning for the Maritimes, and The Live Poets Society. Her poetry has won prizes in the Prince Edward Island Literary Awards and the Atlantic Writing Competition.

Dianne began speculating about real-life kindred-spirit relationships when she realized that "kindred spirits" had been part of her vocabulary since she read Anne of Green Gables. Her passion for the topic led her to write Kindred Spirits: Relationships that Spark the Soul. Her interviews have been published in L.M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture.

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