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 the first of her 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). 

"A Lesson in Collegiality," the first of the Dr. Alice Clarke series, is a tongue-in-cheek whodunnit, set in a northern Canadian university. It was 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.

She is currently putting the final touches on "A Lesson in Humility," second in the Dr. Alice Clarke (PhD). As well, she is refining a more serious dystopian novel and working on various other projects.