Essayist, reviewer,
columnist, and poet, Diana Fitzgerald
Bryden's poetry has appeared in two Insomniac Press
anthologies (Beds and Shotguns and The Last Word) and
Vintage96, a League of Canadian Poets anthology
published by Quarry Press. Her poems have also been
published in magazines and journals including Shift,
Alphabet City, and The Globe & Mail. She was a winner in
the League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Contest
in 1996, and one of her essays was shortlisted for the
1998 Canadian Literary Awards.
Bryden explores her love of the Russian language and
Russian poets in her poetry. She poses questions
about the impact of the past on identities in the
present, especially for the immigrant from of a diverse
cultural heritage living "in between" cultures.
Learning Russian is her first book.
