Kathleen McConnell

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Kathleen McConnell is a Canadian academic and writer. [1] A professor of English literature at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, she has published both academic literature under her own name and poetry under the pen name Kathy Mac. [2] [3]

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Life and career

Kathy McConnel was born on July 17, 1961, in Peterborough Ontario. She got her BFA in Art History in 1986 from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Her involvement in writing communities includes:

Works

Kathy Mac wrote Unnatural Habitats, Published on the Storyspace platform in 1994 in The Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext Volume 3, Number 3, and bundled with Kathryn Cramer's In Small and Large Pieces;

Her 2002 poetry collection Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth (Roseway Press) was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2002 Governor General's Awards, [4] and won the Gerald Lampert Award in 2003. [5]

Her chapbook, Reunion: Drawings (2004), was co-produced with artist Elizabeth MacKenzie, [3]

Her second poetry collection, The Hundefraulein Papers, (Roseway Press) was published in 2009, [6]

Her third poetry collection, Human Misunderstanding, was published in 2017. [7] (Roseway Press) was shortlisted for the Fiddlehead Poetry Book prize of the New Brunswick Book Awards. [8]

Her first academic work, Pain, Porn and Complicity: Women Heroes from Pygmalion to Twilight, was published in 2012. [1] This is a book of essays on pop culture. [9]

She has written essays, including Omar Khadr Is Not Harry Potter 2009. [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Book launch for McConnell's collection of essays to be held at STU today". The Daily Gleaner , January 18, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Ex-Bridgenorth poet up for top literary award". Peterborough Examiner , October 25, 2002.
  3. 1 2 3 "Kathleen McConnell (Kathy Mac)". New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia. November 21, 2022. Retrieved November 21, 2022.
  4. ↑ "Mistry sidelined by Canada's literati: Lesser-known writers nominated for Governor General's Literary Awards". Ottawa Citizen , October 22, 2002.
  5. ↑ "Dionne Brand wins Pat Lowther Award". The Globe and Mail , May 27, 2003.
  6. ↑ "The Hundefraulein Papers is a 'quick, clever' book". The Daily Gleaner , June 13, 2009.
  7. ↑ "Kathy Mac’s Battle With Social and Poetic Convention". Atlantic Books Today, August 30, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Kathy Mac's Biography". Washington State University. November 21, 2022. Retrieved November 21, 2022.
  9. ↑ "Kathy Mac". The Miramachi Reader. November 21, 2022. Retrieved November 21, 2022.
  10. ↑ Mac, Kathy (2009). "Omar Khadr Is Not Harry Potter". DisClosure: A Journal of Social Theory. 16 (7). doi:10.13023/disclosure.18.07.
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