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.
Bibliography
- Results of the Ring Toss - 1976
- Hardwired Angel - 1987
- Machine Sex and Other Stories - 1988
- Leaving Marks - 1992
- Black Wine - 1997 (winner, James Tiptree, Jr. Award, Crawford Award, Aurora Award)
- Vanilla and Other Stories - 2000
- A Paradigm of Earth - 2001
- Ice & Other Stories - 2018
- 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
References
- "Candas Jane Dorsey: Saving the World". Locus Magazine. August 2000. Retrieved 2013-07-29.
- David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, ed. (2006). Year's Best Fantasy 6. Tachyon Publications. ISBN 1-892391-37-6.
- Gaylaxicon 2006. "Additional Author Guest". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
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- 1952 births
- Living people
- Bisexual women writers
- Canadian science fiction writers
- Cyberpunk writers
- Canadian LGBTQ novelists
- Canadian women novelists
- Science fiction editors
- Writers from Edmonton
- Canadian women science fiction and fantasy writers
- Canadian speculative fiction publishers (people)
- Canadian speculative fiction editors
- Canadian LGBTQ poets
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- 20th-century Canadian poets
- 20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers
- 20th-century Canadian women writers
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian poets
- 21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- 21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people
- Canadian bisexual women
- Canadian bisexual writers
- Bisexual novelists
- Aurora Award–winning writers