Dorothy Ellen Palmer is a former English/Drama teacher, improv coach and union Branch President, now a disabled senior writer and disability activist. Her short fiction and nonfiction appear in over forty literary and disability journals. Long-listed for the Re-Lit Award, her first novel, When Fenelon Falls, (Coach House, 2010) features a disabled teen protagonist in the Moonwalk-Woodstock summer of 1969. Her adoption-disability memoir, Falling for Myself, (Wolsak and Wynn, 2019), was a finalist for The Hamilton Book Awards, and acclaimed by The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, and Quill & Quire. She is the winner of the 2020 Helen Henderson Award for disability journalism, has served on FOLD’s Accessibility Advisory Committee, and appeared at FOLD, GritLIT, WOTS, The Next Chapter, The Eh List, and CBC Radio. She can always be found tweeting @depalm.
At the February 25, 2023 gathering of Surrey Muse, Dorothy will be the Featured Author participating via Skype. More about the event is here: saturday-february-25
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