Course FacilitatorDianne MorrowDianne Hicks Morrow has now facilitated this Seniors College course for twenty years, with several of her classes still meeting on their own to write and publish. Her own life writing is in the form of her award-winning poetry and humorous personal essays, some of which she has recorded on CBC radio. Her memoir, Fixing Up the Farmhouse: Forty Years of Living, Loving and Lamenting, was published in 2015, during her tenure as poet laureate of PEI. Dianne has given poetry readings and writing workshops across Canada and in Tasmania, Australia, ever since the publication of her poetry collections, Long Reach Home (Acorn Press, 2002 and What Really Happened Is This, A Poetry Memoir, 2011).
Dianne holds a Bachelor of Arts in Honours English from UNB and has a permanent teachers’ certificate for PEI, NB and BC. For over twenty years she was involved in adult education here on PEI, and in the women’s and the literacy movements—both as volunteer and as staff. From 1999 – 2002 she was director of the L.M. Montgomery Institute at UPEI. Her non-fiction book, Kindred Spirits: Relationships that Spark the Soul, was published in 2005, and features interviews with 27 Atlantic Canadians about the kindred spirits in their lives.
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