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Colleen Anderson

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Born

Edmonton, Canada

Website

http://www.colleenanderson.wordpress.com

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Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Poetry

Influences

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. Her works have been nominated for multiple awards: Elgin, Rhysling, Dwarf Stars, Pushcart, Aurora. As well, her works have been shortlisted for the Gaylactic Spectrum Award, the Friends of Merril short fiction contest, the SFPA poetry contest, and placed in the Rannu competition, Balticon poetry contest and Crucible. Colleen also won the Jerry Jazz Musician short story contest and has received several honorable mentions in the Year's Best SF, Year's Best Horror and Fantasy, and the Writers of the Future.

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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) 3.75 avg rating — 24 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) 4.08 avg rating — 13 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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