Dafoe, Nancy: - Poet, author, educator Nancy Avery Dafoe lives in Homer, NY. She writes across genres and has published eight books. Her writings have earned local, state, and national awards, including the William Faulkner award in poetry in 2016. Her published books include Poets Diving in the Night; a cross-genre memoir An Iceberg in Paradise: A Passage through Alzheimer's; texts on education and writing The Misdirection of Education Policy, Breaking Open the Box, and Writing Creatively; and two novels, You Enter a Room and Both End in Speculation.