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Dorothy Ellen Palmer
Dorothy Ellen Palmer is a disabled senior writer, mom of two, retired English/Drama teacher, improv coach and union activist. Winner of the 2020 Helen Henderson Award for disability journalism, her fiction and nonfiction appear in literary and disability journals. Long-listed for the ReLit Award, When Fenelon Falls, (Coach House, 2010) features a disabled teen in the Moonwalk-Woodstock summer of 1969. Her memoir, Falling for Myself, (Wolsak and Wynn, 2019), was a finalist for the Hamilton Book Award. Her newest novel, Kerfuffle, the tale of an improv troupe making sense and nonsense of Toronto’s G20 protests, is due to be published in Spring 2022 with Renaissance Press.
retired, no institutional address