Michelle Deines
Michelle Deines is middle sister who grew up on rural Vancouver Island without television. Her work is often infused with a love of nature and adventure, two things that figured strongly in the stories of her childhood—which she often took a part in writing. Now, she is an award-winning writer who works in multiple genres, including poetry, non-fiction, and drama. Michelle’s poetry and non-fiction has been published in several magazines across Canada. Her plays include The Nighthawks, which won the 2019 Yellow Point Drama Group Playwriting Competition, an adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense & Sensibility, A Dog at a Feast, and I am the Bastard Daughter of Engelbert Humperdinck (co-written with Kathryn Kirkpatrick). In her theatre work, Michelle loves to explore character, and revels in the theatrical. Michelle can often be found extolling the wonderful world of theatre history and playwriting in the halls of Capilano University, where she is a faculty member.