Dorothy Ellen Palmer

Dorothy is a mom, disabled senior writer, accessibility advocate, adoptee, retired high school Drama teacher, improv coach and union activist. Her memoir, ***Falling for Myself***, (Wolsak and Wynn 2019) examines how disability and adoption combined to help her become an activist and find her birthparents. Reviewed in the *Toronto Star*, *The Globe and Mail,* and *Quill and Quire*, it has been heralded as both funny and whip smart. Her first novel, ***When Fenelon Falls***, (Coach House, 2010), features a disabled teen protagonist in the Woodstock-Moonwalk summer of 1969. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in both literary and disability journals: *REFUSE, Readers Digest, Broadview Magazine, Wordgathering, Canthius, Alt-Minds, All Lit Up, Little Fiction Big Truths, 49th Shelf, and Open Book.* She serves on the Accessibility Advisory Committee for FOLD and the Disability Justice Network of Ontario (DJNO). She is a graduate of Western University and did her teacher training at Simon Fraser University. ([Source](https://theauthorsbookclub.ca/about-dorothy-ellen-palmer/))

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