Myrna Dey is a Canadian writer, whose

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''Extensions'' was a longlisted nominee for the 2011

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."Myrna Dey's debut novel makes Giller Prize longlist"
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'', September 6, 2011. It was the first novel ever named to the longlist through the award's new Readers' Choice program, which allowed the general public to nominate books for award consideration. A native of

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, Dey studied at the

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and the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

. She currently lives in

Kamsack Kamsack, Saskatchewan, Canada, is a town in the Assiniboine River Valley, where the Whitesand River, Saskatchewan, Whitesand River joins the Assiniboine River. It is northeast of Yorkton. Saskatchewan Highway 8, Highway 8 and Saskatchewan Highw ...

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with her husband, a dentist. She has published short stories and journalism in ''

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''. Dey was a 2014 semi-finalist in Chatelaine Magazine's "Write for Chatelaine Contest" with a poignant personal essay entitled "Into the Storm" about helping her husband to build a new reality in the wake of dementia.

Works

*''Extensions'' (2010)

References

External links

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