Darcy Tamayose is a writer, graphic designer, and PhD student. Her work, which includes the novel, Odori, and youth fiction book, Katie Be Quiet received the Canada-Japan Literary Award, and has been shortlisted for both the Alberta Writer's Guild Georges Bugnet Award and Foreword Indie Juvenile Award. She has worked for over a decade as communications officer for the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge. Born and raised in the prairie landscape of southern Alberta, Tamayose lives there today surrounded by daughter, family, and friends.
