Candas Jane Dorsey giving a lecture in Montreal in 2006
Candas Jane Dorsey (born November 16, 1952)[1] is a Canadianpoet andscience fiction novelist who resides in her hometown ofEdmonton,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 theWriters Guild of Alberta and is a founder ofSF Canada.[2] In 1998, Dorsey received theAurora Award.
Dorsey was editor-in-chief of The Books Collective (River, Slipstream and Tesseract Books) from 1992 through 2005.[3]
In 1994 she edited one issue of Prairie Fire magazine, along with With G.N. Louise Jonasson, that focused on Canadian speculative fiction.
