Bernadette Gabay Dyer is a Jamaican Canadian poet, playwright, fiction writer, artist, and storyteller. She graduated from The Immaculate Conception High School, The Jamaican School of Art, then trained as a teacher at Toronto's Lakeshore Teacher's College. She has published Villa Fair Stories ( 2000 ), Waltzes I Have Not Forgotten (2004), Chasing the Banyon Tree ( 2018 ) and Santiago's Purple Skies at Morning Light ( 2019 ). Her poetry has been published in literary magazines in Canada, England, and the US and short stories anthologized in several collections.