Alice Zorn

Alice Zorn is a Canadian author. She has published three novels, Arrhythmia (2011), Five Roses (2016), and Colours in Her Hands (2024), as well as a short story collection, Ruins & Relics (2009).

Alice Zorn
Born	Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Website	alicezorn.blogspot.com

Life and career

Zorn's first book Ruins & Relics, a collection of short fiction, was published in March 2009 by NeWest Press. It was later a finalist for the 2009 Quebec Writers' Federation's McAuslan First Book Prize.^[1][2][3] She has also participated in the Banff Writing Studio and the Quebec Federation Mentorship Program.^[3] NeWest Press published Arrhythmia, Zorn's first novel, in May 2011.^[4][5][6][7]

Zorn's second novel, Five Roses, was published by Dundurn Press in July 2016.^[8][9] It received positive reviews from literary critics.^[10][11] Five Roses was later translated into French as Le rosier de la Pointe and was a finalist for the Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award.^[12] Her third novel, Colours in Her Hands, was published by Freehand Books in September 2024.^[12][13] She is scheduled to publish a second short story collection with NeWest Press in 2026.^[14]

Zorn has also published short stories in various literary journals across Canada, including The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, Room of One's Own, and Grain.^[4][15] She has placed first twice in Prairie Fire magazine's Fiction Contest, in 2006 and 2011, and won the Manitoba Magazine Award for Fiction in 2013.^[12][15]

Originally from Hamilton, Ontario, Zorn resides in Montreal.^[4]

Bibliography

• 2009: Ruins & Relics
• 2011: Arrhythmia
• 2016: Five Roses
• 2024: Colours in Her Hands