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Diane Keating was born 20 July 1940 in Winnipeg, Manitoba to two teachers, Ernst and Muriel. She graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts. Following her graduation she embarked on a career as a freelance travel writer in Rome until 1964, when she returned to Canada and took a position as a fashion writer in Montreal for the Hudson Bay Company until 1967. She married Christopher Keating in 1967, with whom she has two kids, and then served as Vice President of Keating Educational Tours in Toronto from 1968-1978. Following this position, she began her career as a writer and published several works of both fiction and poetry. Keating’s works include, but are not limited to: In Dark Places (1978), No Birds or Flowers (1982), Mad Apples (1983), The Optic Heart (1984), The Salem Diary (1989), The Salem Letters (1992), The Year One: New and Selected Poems (2002), and The Crying Out (2014). Keating’s work No Birds or Flowers was shortlisted for the 1982 Governor General’s Award. She lives in Toronto. (Encyclopedia.ca)