Cecelia Frey | |
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Nationality | Canadian |
Occupation(s) | Novelist, Poet, Writer |
Website | ceceliafrey |
Cecelia Frey (born 1936) is a Canadian poet, novelist, and short story writer. [1][2] Her works have appeared in literary magazines and in numerous anthologies, and broadcast on CBC Radio as well as produced by the Women's Television Network.[3] She was the 2018 recipient of the Golden Pen Lifetime Achievement Award.[4]
Cecelia Frey was born in 1936 on a homestead near Padstow south of Mayorthorpe, Alberta, and moved to Edmonton where she worked as a social worker and librarian. In 1970, she launched her writing career by attending the University of Calgary where she took a writing course with W.O. Mitchell. She has since worked as a freelance writer, editor and teacher. An organizer and producer of the Calgary Creative Reading Series, she served as fiction editor of Dandelion Magazine from 1983-1988.[5][6]
Frey lives in Calgary, Alberta.