Candas Dorsey, poet, novelist and essayist, reads from her work Nov. 26 as second in this year's Writers Reading Series.

        Peter Robinson College hosts the reading in the dining hall at 8 p.m.

        Born in Edmonton in 1952, Candas Dorsey has been a full-time freelance writer and editor since 1980. She has published four books of poetry (this is for you, 1973; Orion rising, 1974; Results of the Ring Toss, 1976; Leaving Marks, 1992) and two short story collections (Machine Sex and other stories, 1988; Dark Earth Dreams, 1994). Sleeping in a Box, the first story in Machine Sex and other stories, won the 1989 Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Award for the Best Short-Form Work in English. Hardwired Angel, her frst novel (co-authored with Nora Abercrombie) won the International Three-Day Novel-Writing Contest in 1986. Her 1997 novel Black Wine won the Crawford Fantasy Award given by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.

        She is working on a new novel, A Paradigm of Earth, and a book of essays, Pornographic Culture: Some Thoughts About Sex, Gender, Art and the Politics of Repression.

Symposium
Psychologist talks on brain injury

Clinical psychologist Joanna Hamilton gives a lecture about assessing speech impairment caused by brain injuries, Nov. 28 at 2:30 p.m. in Otonabee College 143.

        Her talk entitled When Normal is Impaired, is one in a series of symposiums organized by the Psychology Department.

        Hamilton develops and implements rehabilitation programs for children and adults who have sustained brain injury. She graduated from Trent in 1985 with an honors B.Sc. in psychology and received her MA and PhD in developmental clinical neuropsychology from the University of Windsor.