DIANNE WARREN is the author of the Governor General’s Award–winning novel Cool Water, as well as the novel Liberty Street, three books of short fiction and three plays. Her play Serpent in the Night Sky was short-listed for a Governor General’s Award for Drama. She is the recipient of the Marian Engel Award for a female writer in mid-career, and the Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Award for Literary Excellence. Warren lives with her husband, a visual artist, in Regina, Saskatchewan.