Deanna Barnhardt Kawatski
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Deanna Barnhardt Kawatski

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Deanna Barnhardt Kawatski is the author of best-selling memoir, Wilderness Mother, and Clara and Me,a BC Book Prize nominee, plus the novel, Stalking the Wild Heart. Her most recent book, Burning Man Slaying Dragon, is available through Amazon Kindle. She lives in the North Shuswap where her roots reach back one hundred years. Deanna attended UBC and then travelled extensively in her twenties, spending three years living in Europe. She returned home regularly to plant trees.She wrote her first novel in Paris in 1974 and it caught the interest of George Ryga, who became her mentor. In 1975 she met W.O. Mitchell on a flight back to Canada and attended his workshops at the Banff School of Fine Arts later in the year. In 1978 Deanna worked as a forestry lookout attendant in the remote reaches of Northwestern BC, where she met her hermit husband. For the next thirteen years she led the life of a pioneering mother in the wilderness. At the same time she wrote feature articles for many magazines including Mother Earth News (to which she became a contributing editor) Harrowsmith, Country Journal, and Outdoor Canada. Her life became the subject of two CBC television documentaries and she was interviewed by Vicki Gabereau and many others. Besides Bird, Bubble and Stream, a volume of poetry (Fiddlehead Press), Deanna’s poetry and short stories have appeared in many publications, including North Coast Collected (Caitlin Press), Imagining British Columbia (Anvil Press) and most recently Slice Me Some Truth, an anthology of creative nonfiction (Wolsak and Wynn). Wilderness Mother and Clara and Me were both Book-of-the-Month Club selections. Deanna is a popular workshop presenter and has given dozens of public readings including at the Vancouver International Writers’ Festival. She worked as a writer-in-resident at the Ryga Centre in 2002 and has also been a Director of the Shuswap Writers’ Festival since its inception.
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