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Kathy Mac
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Kathy Mac

Brief Biography

Kathy Mac winters in Fredericton NB, where she teaches Creative Writing and English Literature at St. Thomas University, and summers in Sambro Head NS, where she tries to relax and write. Ha. Mac is currently working on a series of long poems on poets' vexed relations with popular culture, including "The Inevitable Feminist Treatise on Catwoman" and "Omar Khadr is not Harry Potter".

Selected List of Publications
  • The Hundefräulein Papers. Roseway Publications 2009. ISBN 4781-5526-6300-4.
  • Reunion Poems. Art by Elizabeth MacKenzie. Art Books Canada, Montreal, 2004.
  • Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth. Roseway Publishing, 2002. ISBN 1-896496-33-4.
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  • Unnatural Habitats. Watertown, Mass.: Eastgate, 1995, electronic chapbook.
  • Dust from Outer Space. Calgary: Circle Five Press, 1991, chapbook.
Selected Anthologies
  • Milton Acorn Memorial Anthology (Charlottetown)
  • More Garden Varieties, II, (League of Canadian Poets, Toronto)
  • Poets 88 (Quarry Press, Kingston)
Awards
Lampert Award for best first book of poetry in Canada, 2002. (for Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth)
Finalist: Governor General's award, 2002. (for Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth)
Joseph Howe Poetry Award, Dalhousie University, 2000.