Candas Jane Dorsey

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Candas Jane Dorsey giving a lecture in Montreal in 2006

Candas Jane Dorsey (born November 16, 1952) 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. In 1998, Dorsey received the Aurora Award.

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

In 1994 she edited one issue of Prairie Fire magazine, along with With G.N. Louise Jonasson, that focused on Canadian speculative fiction.

Bibliography

Novels

• Results of the Ring Toss - 1976
• Hardwired Angel - 1987
• Leaving Marks - 1992
• Black Wine - 1997 (winner, James Tiptree, Jr. Award, Crawford Award, Aurora Award)
• A Paradigm of Earth - 2001
• The Story of My Life Ongoing by CS Cobb - 2022

Epitome Apartments series

• The Adventures of Isabel: A Postmodern Mystery, By the Numbers - 2020
• What's the Matter with Mary Jane? - 2021
• He Wasn’t There Again Today - 2023

Collections

• Machine Sex and Other Stories - 1988
• Vanilla and Other Stories - 2000
• Ice & Other Stories - 2018

Anthologies

• Tesseracts 3 with Gerry Truscott (1990)
• Tesseracts 8 with John Clute (1999)
• Land/Space: An Anthology of Prairie Speculative Fiction with Judy McCrosky (2002)
• Food of My People with Ursula Pflug (2021)

External links

• Template:Trim Template:PAGENAMEBASE at the Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseTemplate:EditAtWikidata