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Colleen Anderson

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Born

Edmonton, Canada

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Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Poetry

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Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe
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Colleen Anderson writes fiction, dark fiction, erotica, poetry, SF, fantasy, and anything of interest. She has a BFA in Creative Writing and freelances as a copyeditor and proofreader. She is a Ladies of Horror Fiction, Canada Council, and BC Arts Council grant recipient, has been published in eight countries. An award-winning author, her works appear in Amazing, Cemetery Dance, Weird Tales, and HWA Poetry Showcase. A Rhysling Award winner for “Machine (r)Evolution” she is also a two-time winner of the SFPA’s dwarf poetry contest. Author of four poetry collections, I Dreamed a World, The Lore of Inscrutable Dreams, Weird Worlds and Vellum Leaves and Lettered Skins, she is working on two more collections. Her fiction collections, Embers Amon ...more

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	Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast by Colleen Anderson (Goodreads Author) (editor), Steve Vernon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Claude Lalumière (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.80 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Playground of Lost Toys (The Exile Book of) by Colleen Anderson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ursula Pflug (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rhonda Eikamp (Contributor) 4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alice Unbound: Beyond Wonderland by Colleen Anderson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), David Day (Goodreads Author) (Preface), Geoff Gander (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whispers from Beyond: A Showcase of Dark Poetry by Colleen Anderson (Goodreads Author), Maxwell I. Gold (Goodreads Author), Angela Yuriko Smith (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lore of Inscrutable Dreams 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Body of Work 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gargoylicon - Imaginings and Images of the Gargoyle in Literature and Art by Colleen Anderson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Manuel Arenas (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Bruce Boston (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best Indie Speculative Fiction: December 2021 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Dreamed A World it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Embers Amongst the Fallen: Speculations 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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This is a powerful collection and story of the Borgias, or a Borgia-like. They were infamous--a pope who had a mistress and illegitimate children. Lucrezia Borgia, a pawn and possible unwilling tool to perversions and her brother Cesare, powerful and ...more
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