Bernice Friesen

BERNICE FRIESEN lives in Saskatchewan. She has been published in Grain, NeWest Review, Western People, Prairie Fire, Prairie Journal, CV2, and The Dalhousie Review and has work forthcoming in the anthology eye wuz here. Her visual art has appeared in Grain, Prism International, and on the cover of Dig. She has received three major awards from the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, two for short fiction and one for young adult Fiction. Her essay "Beijing In Four Days" was in the final judging of the 1996 Tilden Canadian Literary Awards. Her short story collection, The Seasons Are Horses, was published by Thistledown Press in 1995 and was shortlisted in the Saskatchewan Book Awards for both Fiction and Children's Literature. The title story won the 1996 Vicky Metcalf short story award.