Tanya Berry

Tanya is a professor emeritus with expertise in behaviour change. Part of her checkered educational history includes work toward a BFA in writing in the early 1990s that took a long detour into academe. Even as she wrote copiously as a researcher and academic, her interest in fun writing (both fiction and nonfiction) always lurked. Since retiring, she has completed three novels, including two in the Dr. Alice Clarke (Phd) murder mysteries (available through Kobo).  and several shorter pieces including a first person essay published in the Globe and Mail (G&M). 

The Dr. Alice Clarke novels are tongue-in-cheek whodunnits, set in a northern Canadian university. They are influenced by her experiences and observations as a professional academic. Her G&M article is a humorous essay on travelling with backpacks vs "ticky-ticky" suitcases.