Edna Alford is a Canadian author and editor. As a writer she is known for the collections A Sleep Full of Dreams and The Garden of Eloise Loon. She has also won the Marian Engel Award and the Gerald Lampert Award. The Marian Engel Award is presented each year by the Writers' Trust of Canada in memory of the Canadian writer Marian Engel. The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is made annually by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet As an editor she co-founded the magazine Dandelion and edited Grain magazine from 1985-1990. [1]