Writer and editor AJ Dolman is an advocate for bisexual and mental health rights and representation. They have published both fiction and non-fiction on mental illness, bi erasure and the arts, and were a founding board member for Jer’s Vision (now the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity).
Dolman founded Ottawa’s Crafty Bi Nature for the bi/pan+ community in response to research showing lack of community support and feelings of invisibility contribute to bisexuals suffering the highest rates of mental illness, suicide and sexual assault among all orientations.
She works with other writers and organizations like the Bi Book Awards and Toronto’s Bi+Arts Festival to advocate for and support bi/pan+ creators, and with organizations such as All Out to defend LGBTQIA+ human rights in Canada and internationally.
Dolman is the author of Lost Enough: A collection of short stories, and three chapbooks of poetry, and co-edited the international anthology Motherhood in Precarious Times. Their poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous journals, magazines and anthologies, including QT Literary Magazine, Collective Unrest, Crush, Imaginary Safe House, Grain, Prism international, The Fiddlehead, Utne and On Spec. They are a contributing editor for Arc Poetry Magazine.
She is married to fellow Canadian bisexual author James K. Moran.
selected honourS
Chair, Romance Jury, 2020 Bi Book Awards; Jurist, Romance Jury, 2019 Bi Book Awards, Bi Writers Association
