Deborah Buehler

D. M. Buehler is a writer, ecologist, research analyst and teacher. She holds a Bachelor of Education and a PhD in Animal Ecology. She has studied birds in Panama, Tierra del Fuego (Argentina), Mauritania, Europe, the USA and Canada (including the Arctic). Her work has been published in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and the literary journal The Awakenings Review. Her fiction has been published in Heart Strings on Medium. She currently authors a Spotlight series for the journal Wader Study.

D. M. Buehler draws from her personal experience living and working in Panama to bring depth and authenticity to her debut novel TIARIS: When the Oceans Kissed. With extensive knowledge of biology and birds, and careful research on the history of the canal, she weaves together ecology, historical fiction, and a touch of fantasy to create a captivating story. Like her protagonist, she is bi-racial and was raised by Chinese/Guyanese and Swiss immigrants in Scarborough, Ontario. She has lived in Canada, Panama and the Netherlands in a bungalow, a nurses’ residence, a bank, a trailer, a farmhouse, a town house in a downtown co-operative, and a yoga studio. She now lives in a brick house with grey siding in Collingwood, Ontario, where she is frequently found outdoors with her Panamanian husband and two multi-racial kids.