Deirdre Kelly is a features writer on staff at Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper, covering fashion, design, decor and lifestyle trends for the weekly Style section. Formerly the newspaper's award-winning dance critic, she is also the Canadian correspondent for Dance Gazette in England, and a contributor to the International Dictionary of Ballet (St. James Press). The author of the best-selling memoir, Paris Times Eight, and Ballerina: Sex, Scandal and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection, published in the fall of 2012, she is also a featured writer in the travel writing anthology, AWOL. Her dance criticism and other arts writing can also be found on the site, www.criticsatlarge. She lives in Toronto with her husband and their two children.
