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Diana Aspin was born in 1947 in Blackpool, England. She has spent most of her adult life
in Canada and divides her time between her year–round home tucked into a cliff on the
Lake of Bays, Muskoka, and her apartment in Brampton, Ontario. While raising three children—John,
James and Emma—she received a Social Service diploma and worked in this field as a counselor until
she decided to write full time. Diana Aspin has been writing stories and poems since she was a child
and has published short fiction, travel, poetry, newspaper columns and essays in Canada, the United States
and the United Kingdom. She won second prize in the Thistledown Press competition for her short story "Mom?!"
in 1998 and was runner–up in the 1995 Thistledown competition for her story "Deep Freeze." She
has placed third once, and runner–up twice, in the Toronto Star Short Story Competition. |