About Me


WRITER BIO
Monna McDiarmid is a writer, life coach and educator. She and her partner live in a tiny apartment in Yokohama, Japan and an old, wooden house in Nova Scotia, Canada.


PRONUNCIATION PRO TIP
Try this: Mona McDermid.


WRITING
I’ve always been a writer
but began publishing later in life.
The 38 Impossible Loves of Naoko Nishizawa
is the first book I’ve published.
Takeaway: The books we love
were published by authors
who refused to give up.
Let’s keep going!


FROM
It’s complicated!
Still Canadian at heart
after many years away.
I’ve lived in six countries
on four continents:
Canada
Colombia
Mexico
Spain
Thailand,
the last ten years in Japan,
as much my home
as Canada.


LOVES
I love to travel,
read
and write.
Stories help us
share and understand
our lives.
I love watching
the ocean
and fires in wood stoves,
my two channels
of Luddite television.
It makes me happy
to capture the feeling
of a particular moment
through photography.
I’m obsessed
with creating beautiful homes
and not so wild about the ironing.
I appreciate cheese, chocolate and bread
in all their forms,
poetry by Naomi Shihab Nye
and Andrea Gibson,
cookbooks,
sun sets,
every dog on the planet,
and my lovely partner DP.


LEARN WITH ME
I believe in our ability
to change,
notice,
and feel grateful.
I believe that creative acts
make us healthier and happier.
It makes me happy to offer courses
that help you embrace your creativity
and claim your glorious inner teenager.


WELCOME!
I’m so happy you’re here.


FIND ME AT
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Patreon
Podcast: Ease Lessons for Writers