Diane Keating is a Canadian writer.^[1] She is most noted for her poetry collectionNo Birds or Flowers, which was a shortlisted nominee for theGovernor General's Award for English-language poetry at the1982 Governor General's Awards.^[2] She published two further poetry collections in the 1980s,^[3] as well as the career anthologyThe Year One: New and Selected Poems in 2001.^[4]

In 1989, her short story "The Crying Out" was published in theJourney Prize anthology,^[5] and in 1991, she was a Journey Prize finalist for her short story "The Salem Letters".^[6] Both stories were excerpts from a novel in progress, which was originally slated for publication in 1992^[7] but was withdrawn at that time and was not published until 2014.^[8]

Born and raised inWinnipeg,Manitoba, she was educated at theUniversity of Manitoba.^[9]

• In Dark Places (1978)
• No Birds or Flowers (1982)
• Mad Apples (1983)
• The Optic Heart (1984)
• The Year One: New and Selected Poems (2001)
• The Crying Out (2014)

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