Candas Jane Dorsey: Biography, Facts and Career

Candas Jane Dorsey (born November 16, 1952, in Edmonton) is a Canadian poet and science fiction novelist who resides in her hometown of Edmonton, Alberta. She was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association Hall of Fame in 2018. 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. In 1989, Machine Sex and Other Stories was a finalist for the Aurora Award for Best Novel. Her later novel, Black Wine, won the award in 1998; it also won the 1997 Otherwise Award and the 1997 Crawford Award. In 1994, she edited one issue of Prairie Fire magazine, along with With G.N. Louise Jonasson, that focused on Canadian speculative fiction. Dorsey was editor-in-chief of The Books Collective (River, Slipstream and Tesseract Books) from 1992 through 2005. 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.

Quick facts about Candas Jane Dorsey

• Full name: Candas Jane Dorsey
• Born: 1952-11-16
• Nationality: Canada
• Known as: Author
• Wikidata ID: Q187424

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