The School of Creative Writing is pleased to congratulate Diana Gustafson, MFA. Diana’s graduate thesis is a novel entitled The Unkindness of Ravens.
Diana L. Gustafson is a women’s health researcher who has published extensively on mothering and health-related social justice issues. Her modest success with publishing flash fiction can be attributed to the support of faculty and students at the UBC School of Creative Writing. She earned an honourable mention in an Offtopic Publishing contest and her first curio fiction appears in a 2024 collection entitled Tales I Was Told. She lives and writes in Toronto where she has an embarrassingly large collection of corrective eyeglasses–none rose-coloured.
Annika Wallin grows up playing street hockey in a working-class Winnipeg family and listening to her grandfather’s tales about Odin’s ravens. At twenty, she stands six foot-two in skates and is the image of Freyja, the fierce warrior princess, brandishing a hockey stick instead of a sword. When she finds herself unintentionally pregnant by a man she doesn’t love, she must choose between respecting her family’s strict Lutheran values and her promising future on the Canadian Olympic team. This family portrait marked by drug misuse, violence, shame, and forgiveness reveals how belief systems can structure or destroy a young woman’s life.
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