Edna Alford

Contributor Banff Centre Press

Edna Alford was born in Turtleford, Saskatchewan and grew up in Saskatoon. She is the author of two collections of short fiction, A Sleep Full of Dreams and The Garden of Eloise Loon, both published by Oolican Books. She has received the Gerald Lampert Award for A Sleep Full of Dreams and the Marian Engel Award for a body of work by a woman in mid-career. Her work has been widely anthologized and is included in The Oxford Collection of Canadian Short Stories, The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women, Best Canadian Stories, Short Fiction: An Introductory Anthology, and others. She was co-founder and co-editor with Joan Clark of Dandelion Magazine, fiction editor of Grain Magazine, and has co-edited the Banff Centre anthologies Meltwater, Rip-rap and Intersections. In addition to writing residences, she has taught creative writing at the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts, Sage Hill Writing Experience, Mount Royal College, Lakeland College, the Okanagan Summer School of the Arts, Women and Words (Extension Department, University of Alberta), and others. Since 1992, she has been on faculty in the Writing and Publishing Program at the Banff Centre. She is Director of the Writing with Style Program and Associate Director, Fiction, of the Writing Studio. Edna Alford lives and works at Turtle Lake near Livelong in the boreal parkland of north central Saskatchewan.

Contributor to:

Second Chapter: The Canadian Writers Photography Project