Cecelia Frey (born 1936) is a Canadian poet, novelist, and short story writer. ^[1][2] Her works have appeared in literary magazines and in numerous anthologies, and broadcast on CBC Radio as well as produced by the Women's Television Network.^[3] She was the 2018 recipient of the Golden Pen Lifetime Achievement Award.^[4]

Cecelia Frey was born in 1936 on a homestead near Padstow south of Mayorthorpe, Alberta, and moved to Edmonton where she worked as a social worker and librarian. In 1970, she launched her writing career by attending the University of Calgary where she took a writing course with W.O. Mitchell. She has since worked as a freelance writer, editor and teacher. An organizer and producer of the Calgary Creative Reading Series, she served as fiction editor of Dandelion Magazine from 1983-1988.^[5][6]

Frey lives in Calgary, Alberta.

• Lovers Fall Back To Earth (Inanna Publications, 2018)
• Moments of Joy (Inanna Publications, 2015)
• The Long White Sickness (Inanna Publications, 2013)
• A Raw Mix of Carelessness and Longing (Brindle & Glass, 2009)
• A Fine Mischief (Touchwood Press, 2004)
• The Prisoner of Cage Farm (University of Calgary Press, 2003)
• Breakaway (Macmillan Publishers, 1974)

• Salamander Moon (Snowapple Press, 1997)
• The Love Song of Romeo Paquette (Thistledown Press, 1990)
• The Nefertiti Look (Thistledown Press, 1987)

• North (Bayeux Arts, 2017)
• Under Nose Hill (Bayeux Arts, 2009)
• reckless women (Ronsdale Press, 2004)
• And Still I hear Her Singing (Touchwood Editions, 2000)
• Songs Like White Apples Tasted (Bayeux Arts, 1998)
• the least you can do is sing (Longspoon Press, 1982)

• The Dinosaur Connection (CBC, Vanishing Point Series, 1988)

• Phyllis Webb: An Annotated Bibliography, The Annotated Bibliography of Canada’s Major Authors Series (ECW Press, 1985)^[7]

Her novel, A Raw Mix of Carelessness and Longing, was shortlisted for the 2009 Writer's Guild of Alberta George Bugnet Fiction Award and she is a three-time recipient of the WGA Short Fiction Award. Her novel, Lovers Fall Back to Earth, was a finalist for the 2019 International Book Awards (Fiction-Literary). She has also won awards for play writing.^[8]