Form is suited to content in this innovative, beautifully packaged discbook. More than just a spoken word collection, Dark Earth Dreams combines the lyrical prose of internationally known Canadian speculative fiction writer Candas Jane Dorsey, with the haunting music of Canadian composer Roger Deegan. This CD is accompanied by text for a follow-along reading of two of Dorsey’s short stories, Living in Cities and Black Dog.
Candas Jane Dorsey (born November 16, 1952) is a Canadian poet and science fiction novelist. Born and still living in Edmonton, Alberta, Dorsey became a writer from an early age, and a freelance writer since 1980. She writes 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, does workshops and readings. She has served on the executive board of the Writers' Guild of Alberta and is a founder of SF Canada. In 1988, Dorsey received the Aurora, Canadian science fiction and fantasy award.
Dorsey was editor-in-chief of The Books Collective (River, Slipstream and Tesseract Books) from 1992 through 2005.