Dena Bain Taylor

Dena Bain Taylor has spent most of her life in Toronto, Canada, pursuing her joint passions: music and books. She is a classically-trained singer. She is also a writer, critic, tv script advisor, literary award juror, and erstwhile owner of Ben Abraham Books (specializing in the occult). Along the way, she has had a long career at the University of Toronto – first as a Professor of English Literature, then as the Director of the prestigious Health Sciences Writing Centre. She has published extensively, and eclectically: an English dictionary for Chinese students; a couple of textbooks on writing in the Health Sciences; numerous articles and talks on William Blake, sf/f and the occult; and sf/f short stories. And, due out in 2020: 100 Years at the Beach: A History of the Beach Hebrew Institute, 1919-2019 (ECW Press). Bones & Keeps (Prism Publishers) is her first novel, a historical fantasy about the great Scandinavian hero Beowulf. Dena holds an ARCT in Voice Performance, as well as an MA and PhD in English Literature from the University of Toronto. And somehow, through all of this, she has managed to raise two amazing children. She now lives with her husband in a small palace in the sky overlooking Lake Ontario.

Finding Beowulf

Follow Dena and her colleague Margaret as they track Beowulf through modern Sweden and Denmark, armed only with two credit cards, one rental car, and all the imagination they need to see the great king's Iron Age world come to life…