Sandy Frances Duncan

{{Short description|Canadian writer}}

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| name = Sandy Frances Duncan

| other names = Sandy Frances Mary Duncan

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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1942}}

| birth_place = Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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| education = University of British Columbia

| occupation = Writer

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• PEN International
• Writers Union of Canada}}

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| awards = Finalist for the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize in 2005

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Sandy Frances Duncan is a Canadian writer of novels, mysteries, and short stories.{{cite web|work=Biography In Context|title=Contemporary Authors Online: Sandy Frances Mary Duncan|publisher=Gale|url= http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/H1000027411/BIC?u=|date=June 14, 2012|access-date=May 2, 2019|url-access=subscription}} Her novel Gold Rush Orphan was among the finalists for the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize in 2005.{{cite web|title=BC Book Prizes: Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize|url=https://bcbookprizes.ca/winners-finalists/2005-winners-finalists/#children|publisher=BC Book Prizes|year=2019|access-date=May 3, 2019}} She has contributed short fiction to anthologies, including Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told and Celebrating Canadian Women,{{cite web|title=Sandy Frances Duncan|url=http://ronsdalepress.com/authors/sandy-frances-duncan/|publisher=Ronsdale Press|year=2019|access-date=May 4, 2019}} and to magazines including Makara, Northern Journey, and Canadian Fiction.

Duncan, born in Vancouver in 1942, holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of British Columbia. She worked as a psychologist at Woodlands School, New Westminster, British Columbia; Burnaby Mental Health Center in Burnaby, and for the Metropolitan Health Department in Vancouver before turning to writing full-time in 1973.