Jump to content

Candas Jane Dorsey

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by KasparBot (talk | contribs) at 17:27, 1 February 2016 (migrating Persondata to Wikidata, please help, see challenges for this article). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Candas Jane Dorsey giving a lecture in Montreal in 2006

Candas Jane Dorsey (born November 16, 1952)[1] is a Canadian poet and science fiction novelist who resides in her hometown of Edmonton, Alberta. Dorsey became a writer from an early age and works across genre boundaries, writing poetry, fiction, mainstream and speculative, short and long form, arts journalism and arts advocacy. Dorsey has also written television and stage scripts, magazine and newspaper articles, and reviews.

Dorsey currently teaches and holds workshops and readings. She has served on the executive board of the Writers Guild of Alberta and is a founder of SF Canada.[2] In 1998, Dorsey received the Prix Aurora Award.

Dorsey was editor-in-chief of The Books Collective (River, Slipstream and Tesseract Books) from 1992 through 2005.[3]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Candas Jane Dorsey: Saving the World". Locus Magazine. August 2000. Retrieved 2013-07-29.
  2. ^ David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, ed. (2006). Year's Best Fantasy 6. Tachyon Publications. ISBN 1-892391-37-6.
  3. ^ Gaylaxicon 2006. "Additional Author Guest". Retrieved 22 March 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)