Judith Doloughan

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Judith Doloughan was born in England during WW2 and came to Canada at the age of 8. She has lived for most of her life on the West Coast, in both Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia. She earned a BS in Biology from the University of Victoria, and a MS in Marine Engineering from the Canadian Coast Guard College in 1986. She has seen all the Canadian provinces and all three Canadian Territories with the exception of Prince Edward Island.

While working for the Coast Guard, she sailed all the way around North America, from the Arctic to the Panama Canal. She has done a variety of work to earn her keep. She and her husband, Graham, engaged in commercial ice fishing (with nets) on the Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. She's been a teacher, a tutor, a ship's cook, a shipyard worker engineroom oiler. She is now retired and has dedicated herself to writing, something she always wanted to do but necessity dictated otherwise.

She has just published her first SF novel, Fraterfamilias along with Paula Stiles under the name Peter Ferrer, with Virtual Tales. Her second SF novel, Solitude, is close to being finished. A third, mainstream novel should be finished in the summer of 2006. A book on writing, Rules for the Arena: The Art and Craft of Writing Fiction, is lying on the shelf waiting for the right time to send it out.