Cullene Bryant (June 4,1941-April 23, 2017) was a retired minister in the United Church of Canada and grandmother of five children. She authored two collections of short fiction, Llamas In The Snow (1993) and In the Dry Woods (2005). The title story of the latter collection, "In The Dry Woods," was awarded the 2006 national Canadian Christian Writing Award. Her stories have aired on CBC radio and appeared in various literary journals, among them Room of One's Own; Fiddlehead; Descant and The Iowa Review. God is a Laughing Bedouin is her first poetry collection. She lived in Vancouver, BC.