DORRIS HEFFRON was born in Noranda, Quebec, and raised in various Ontario communities. She has an honours B.A. and an M.A. in literature and philosophy from Queen’s University. She lived in Oxford England, from 1968 to 1980, where she was a tutor for Oxford university and the Open University giving courses in literature. She has taught creative writing at the University of Malaysia, travelled extensively in Europe, Asia, and South America, and resided while writing and teaching in Holland, France, and Cape Breton Island.
Dorris wrote three novels about teenagers, regarded as pioneers in the genre of young adult fiction, that were translated and put on high school courses in Europe, Japan, and Canada: Rain and I (1982); CrustyCrossed (1976), and A Nice Fire and Some Moonpennies (1971).
A Shark in the House (1996), Dorris’s first novel for adult continues its widespread appeal to individuals and book clubs. In City Wolves Dorris now deftly embraces the human and the wild, legends and realities, and the primal spiritual bond that connects us beyond time and place.
Dorris now lives at “Little Creek Wolf Range” near Collingwood,Ontario.