Diana Stevan likes to joke she’s a Jill of all trades as she’s worked as a family therapist, teacher, librarian, model, actress and sports reporter for CBC television. With writing her passion, she’s published newspaper articles, poetry, a short story, a novelette, and five novels.

Her novels cross genres: A Cry from the Deep (2014), a time-slip romantic mystery/adventure; The Rubber Fence (2016), women’s fiction, inspired by her work on a psychiatric ward in the 1970s; and Sunflowers Under Fire (2019), historical fiction / family saga, based on her Ukrainian grandmother Lukia’s life during WWI and the wars that followed in Russia. It was a finalist for the 2019 Whistler Independent Book Awards, sponsored by the Writers Union of Canada, a semi-finalist for the 2019 Kindle Book Awards, Literary Fiction category, and Honorable Mention in 2020 Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards.

The sequel to Sunflowers Under Fire, Lilacs in the Dust Bowl (2021), tells the story of Lukia and her family's immigration to Manitoba just before the Great Depression begins. Paper Roses on Stony Mountain (2022) is the final book of Lukia's Family Saga series, and covers the last years of the Depression and early years of WWII on the Manitoba prairies. It made Miramichi Reader's List of Best Fiction of 2022.

In 2025, Diana published Along Came A Gardener, part memoir, part self-help, based on her 25 years working as a therapist in mental health. And in 2026, she published A House Full of Strangers, a collection of short stories set Winnipeg in the 1940s and 1950s about Ukrainian immigrant landladies, their families, and the people who rent rooms from them. 

When she isn’t writing, she loves to garden, travel, and read. With their two daughters grown, Diana lives with her husband Robert on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.