Ann Diamond

Ann Diamond was born in Montreal where she also graduated in History and Creative Writing at Concordia University. She studied fiction with Raymond Carver in the MFA program at Goddard College in Vermont, and later taught creative writing at Concordia University and Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia. Her long poem A Nun's Diary was adapted for theatre by director Robert Lepage. She has published three novels, three poetry collections and two books of short fiction, and won the Hugh MacLennan Award for her short story collection Evil Eye. Her translations of the collected works of Bulgarian poet Kiril Kadiiski were published in Paris and Sofia in 2007 by Les esprits des péninsules and Les presses universitaires Saint-Clément d'Ohride,followed by a second edition which appeared in 2010 with Les Belles Lettres, Paris.

My Cold War, a memoir about growing up in secret Cold War experiments, is available at Lulu.com as well as on Amazon Kindle.