Kate Marshall Flaherty lives in Toronto with her husband and three children. She leads poetry sweatshop workshops, guides meditation and mindfulness retreats, and is a founding member of the Children's Peace Theatre Toronto. She has Kate Marshall Flaherty celebrated the launch of her first book, entitled Tilted Equilibrium, this May 2006, and launched her first CD, Deepening Stillness, in June. She has read from this and her new manuscript at Toronto's Art Bar, Toronto WordStage, and at the LCP's AGM in Ottawa this year. She has won several awards for her poetry, is published in a number of magazines and anthologies, and made the shortlist for the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, Nimrod Journal 2006, and others. Kate won the Toronto Art Bar's Poetry Slam 2005, and the Toronto Art Bar's Poetry Sweatshop Contest in 2004. She has been filmed and interviewed for Bravo's Heart of the Poet series twice in 2005 and 2006. She has participated in The Banff Centre's Writing With Style Program twice, and leads a Poetry Writing Workshop at University of Toronto's Continuing Ed. SMC Campus. Poetry is her first love, and continues to be her life-line.
Awards
First place for the Shaunt Basmajian Award 2006
First place in the Canadian Church Award for Poetry 2006
First place in Canadian Poetry Association's Poetry Contest 2006
First place in Word Magazine's Literary Contests 2003
Third Place in Word Magazine's Literary contest 2004
First place in Cranberry Tree Press Poetry Contest 2002
Honourable Mention THIS Magazine Great Canadian Poetry Contest 2005
Selected Anthologies
Oval Victory (Hidden Brook Press 2002) ISBN 1-894553-35-7
Rocks and Rhythm (beret days books 2003) ISBN 0-9687157-3-7
Rise Up Singing: An Anthology of Women's Poetry & Prose
Other Voices (Emergence by Design 2002) ISSN 0838-4789
Ascent Aspirations (Windfire 2006) ISSN 1715-0841
Outward Bound: An Anthology of Canadian Verse (HMS Press 2005) ISBN1-55253-055-8
Handprints on the Future (Hidden Brook Press 2003) ISBN 1-894553-48-9
Books in Print
Salt (Micro Prose 2005) ISBN 0-9734609-3-8
Tilted Equilibrium (Hidden Brook Press, 2006) ISBN 1-894553-70-5
CDs
Deepening Stillness (Big Window Music 2006)