Diana Stevan likes to joke she's a Jill of all trades as she's worked as a family therapist, teacher, librarian, model, actress and sports reporter for CBC television. With writing her passion, she's published newspaper articles, poetry, a short story, a novelette, and five novels.Her novels cross genres: A Cry from the Deep (2014), a time-slip romantic mystery/adventure; The Rubber Fence (2016), women's fiction, inspired by her work on a psychiatric ward in the 1970s; Sunflowers Under Fire (2019), historical fiction; Lilacs in the Dust Bowl (2021) historical fiction; Paper Roses on Stony Mountain (2022) historical fiction.When Diana isn't writing, she loves to garden, travel, and read. With their two daughters grown, she lives with her husband Robert on Vancouver Island and West Vancouver, British Columbia.