Diana Stevan

Diana Stevan is the Canadian author of a novelette and five novels : A Cry from the Deep (2014), The Rubber Fence (2016), Sunflowers Under Fire (2019), Lilacs in the Dust Bowl (2021), and Paper Roses on Stony Mountain (2022). Other writing of note include: a novelette The Blue Nightgown, poetry published in DreamCatcher (a U.K. journal), a short story in the anthology Escape, and articles on travel and fitness in the Winnipeg Free Press.
The first book of Lukia’s Family Saga trilogy, Sunflowers Under Fire, was a finalist for the 2019 Whistler Independent Book Awards in Fiction, a semi-finalist for the 2019 Kindle Book Awards for Literary Fiction, and received an Honorable Mention in the 2020 Writers’ Digest Self-Published Book Awards. Paper Roses on Stony Mountain, the last book of the trilogy appears in Miramichi Readers’ Best Fiction List for 2022. Her background, motivation and working method is featured in the book, 100 Ways to Write a Book, published by Bolzwinick Press. She's a member of the Writer's Union of Canada and the B.C. Federation of Writers. 
==Early life and education==
Diana Stevan was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the only child of Peter and Dolly Klewchuk, immigrants from Ukraine. 
In 1962, she graduated with a B.Sc.in H.Ec. (honours) in 1963 from the University of Manitoba. And in 1972, received her Master of Social Work from the University of Manitoba. She was on the Dean's List. 
==Career==
Trained as a family therapist, Stevan began work on a psychiatric ward at the Winnipeg General Hospital. Then a year later and for the next seven years, she worked as a school social worker and later as a school psychologist for the Child Guidance Clinic, where she was the editor of the in-house newsletter. 
In 1979, Stevan moved with her husband and two children to the Lower Mainland in British Columbia. Stevan often jokes that she's a Jill of all trades, as she's worked at so many different occupations: family therapist in a variety of settings, field instructor for the School of Social Work at the University of Manitoba and the University of British Columbia, model, director of Interlock, a non-profit emplyee assistance (EAP) counselling agency, B.C. regional manager of Corporate Health Consultants, a national EAP firm, actor, and freelance writer broadcaster for CBC television's Sports Journal in Vancouver. 
With her experience as an actor on film sets, Stevan wrote three screenplays and secured agents in both Toronto and Vancouver. And she recently had the experience of playing a supporting role in her grandson Michael Stevantoni's second feature film, The Banality, coming out in 2023. 
==Personal life==
Diana married Robert Stevan in 1962 and they have two daughters. They moved from Winnipeg to Delta, B.C. in 1979, then to Vancouver seven years later. And in 1997, they moved to Vancouver Island to be closer to their eldest daughhter and family. Currently, they live in West Vancouver and Vancouver Island. 
Stevan's a long-time member of a screenwriters' group in Vancouver, as well as a member of two other writers' groups focussing on critiques and support. When she isn't writing, she gardens, reads, and finds time to take a walk in the forest or along the ocean or ride her ebike. Travel has been a big part of her life, and she and Robert have travelled widely in Canada, USA, Mexico, South America, Europe, the Middle East, China, Ukraine, and Russia. But Stevan's biggest joy is spending time with her family: her three grandchildren (now grown) and two daughters, Karen and Robyn, and their husbands. 
==Bibliography==
===Novels===
* A Cry from the Deep (2014)
* The Rubber Fence (2016)
* Sunflowers Under Fire (2019)
* Lilacs in the Dust Bowl (2021)
* Paper Roses on Stony Mountain (2022)
===Novelette===
* The Blue Nightgown (2015)
===Anthology in collaboration===
Escape (2012)
Category:People from Winnipeg, Manitoba
Category:Canadian people
Category:University of Manitoba alumni
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