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{{Short description|Canadian writer}}
'''Lynnette D'anna''' (born 1955 as Lynnette Dueck)<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n95084918/ Worldcat.org]</ref> is a Canadian writer
==Biography==
D'anna was born in [[Steinbach, Manitoba|Steinbach]], [[Manitoba]] and currently resides in [[Winnipeg]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20061008065647/http://www.mbwriter.mb.ca/mapindex/d_profiles/danna_l.html Manitoba Author Profile]</ref> She was a finalist for the John Hirsch Most Promising Manitoba Writer Award in 1992 following the publication of her first novel, ''sing me no more'', published by [[Press Gang Publishers]] using the author's birth surname Lynnette ''Dueck''. Her second novel, ''RagTimeBone'', a coming-of-age story for young adults published by New Star Books, is also available in German, translated and published as ''Zeit der Blöße'' by Argument Verlag (Hamburg) in 2000.
Her first three books—''sing me no more'', ''RagTimeBone'' and ''fool's bells''—form a thematic trilogy. ''Belly Fruit'', an erotic murder-mystery published by New Star Books in 2000, is a farcical examination of contemporary relationships
D'anna is a graduate of creative communications with a journalism major. She was a regular contributor to ''Zygote'' magazine, a feature books page columnist at ''Interchange'', and has contributed to a large number of literary journals and newspapers during the course of her career. As managing editor of the ''Canadian Women's Health Network Magazine'', she facilitated the production of two special issues on Diversity and Women's Health.
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