Dede Crane

Sessional Instructor

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Areas of Research & Creative Activity

Fiction, writing for young adults.

Biography

Dede Crane is the author of several novels including the nationally acclaimed Sympathy, which was a finalist for the Victoria Butler Book Prize, and the teen novel The 25 Pains of Kennedy Baines. Her most recent books are The Cult of Quick Repair, a collection of stories and (as co-editor) Great Expectations, a collection of essays about the experience of giving birth. Her first published story was short-listed for the CBC Literary Award, and she has since published stories in numerous literary journals, as well as reviewing books for The Globe and Mail, The Shambhala Sun, and The Times-Colonist. Her latest teen novel will be out in the spring of 2009.