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Deirdre Maultsaid is a writer based in Vancouver, Canada. Her writing is rich, provocative, real, and beautiful. Ms. Maultsaid's recently published collection of lyrical essays, This Crisis, These Blessings is a collection of taboo-breaking essays on women's experiences of crisis, illness, motherhood, housework and family. These gorgeous narratives of decision-making show women turning suffering into understanding, grief into poetry and tragedy into renewal. For more about this challenging, yet comforting work, see the introduction.

New: A poem, "Someone glimmering" in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

New: The essay, “The sun knows what it does” in the well-reviewed Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood.

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