Darlene Quaife

Darlene Quaife

Darlene Alice Quaife (née Barry) (born 1 September 1948 Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian novelist. Her first novel, Bone Bird, won a 1990 Commonwealth Writers Prize, for Best First Book, Canada and the Caribbean.

Quaife was educated at the University of Alberta, from which she received a Master of Arts degree in 1986. She was President of the Writers' Guild of Alberta, and a Director of the Wordfest: Banff Calgary International Writers Festival. She lives in Priddis, Alberta.