Dominik Parisien
BIO
Biography

Dominik Parisien is an editor, writer, and poet. In the Ordinary Instant: A Memoir of Walking With Chronic Pain is forthcoming from Penguin Canada and his debut poetry collection Side Effects May Include Strangers was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in fall 2020. His writing has appeared in Maisonneuve, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, Geist, PRISM International, EVENT, The Literary Review of Canada, and elsewhere.

He has also co-edited, with Navah Wolfe, The Mythic Dream, Robots vs Fairies, and The Starlit Wood, and Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction with Elsa Sjunneson. His anthologies have won the Hugo, Shirley Jackson, British Fantasy, and Aurora Awards and have been nominated for the World Fantasy, Ignyte, and the Locus Awards. 

Dominik is a disabled, queer French Canadian who lives in Ottawa, Ontario, on the traditional unceded territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation.

 

ADDRESS
City: Ottawa, Province/Territory: Ontario
EMAIL
GENRE
Poetry and nonfiction
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
In the Ordinary Instant: A Memoir of Walking with Chronic Pain
Publisher
Penguin Canada / Viking
Year
2027
Title
Side Effects May Include Strangers
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2020
LINKS
Links
https://dominikparisien.ca/
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