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AJ Dolman (they/she) is a poet, fiction writer, editor and bi/pan+ rights advocate living on unceded Anishinaabe Algonquin territory in Ottawa, Canada. Their debut full-length poetry collection, Crazy / Mad is out in April 2024 with Gordon Hill Press.

Dolman's short fiction collection Lost Enough was released by Morning Rain Publishing in 2017. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals, magazines and anthologies, including Canthius, The Quarantine Review, QT Literary Magazine, Prism International, Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology (Mansfield Press, 2018), Canadian Ginger (Oolichan Books, 2018), and Triangulation: Lost Voices (Parsec Ink, 2015).

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A Fabulous Summer, Full of Pride

Summer 2024 was an amazing one, with fun readings (giving my own and going to those of other authors), a fabulous sidequest to visit Chicago for the first time, where I got to spend my birthday morning going through the archives and even sketching out a poem draft at the Chicago Poetry Foundation, and, finally, a great time at Capital Pride here in Ottawa. 

For the first time, this year, my partner

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