Currently creating a collection of dog poems, Dorothy Mahoney is a teacher at Essex District High School where her enthusiastic phrase, "Write that down!" has become legendary. On a sabbatical for 2006-2007, she hopes to travel, write, travel and write... She has worked with Learning through the Arts to create a Pioneer Poetry unit for Grade three classrooms, helped develop a literacy strategy for Grade nine students using the Arrogant Worms and is a co-editor of her school board's creative writing contest, The Pluralist. Her writing group has published an anthology, and she has a chapbook about her trip to China and two poetry books.
Awards
International Women's Day Contest 1997 (University of Windsor) tied for first
Coming up for Air (Cranberry Tree Press) winner 2002
Leaf Press Love Contest, winner 2002
Literary Arts Windsor's Chapbook series, winner 2004
Acorn-Rukeyser Chapbook Award, finalist 2005
Selected Publications
The Sandwich Mill Anthology (Cranberry Tree Press, 1997)
Henry's Creatures, poems and stories on the automobile (Black Moss Press, 2000)
Smaller Than God, words of spiritual longing (Black Moss Press, 2001)
Coming up for Air (Cranberry Tree Press, 2002)
Tea for Three, Conituum, Toccata (Cranberry Tree Press, 2003, 2004, 2005)
Dinner Party (Leaf Press, 2003)
Cherish Our Heritage (HMS Press, 2004)
A Thousand Yellow Leaves, works by five poets (Cranberry Tree Press, 2004)
Books in Print
Mahoney, Dorothy
Through Painted Skies. Poetry (Black Moss Press, 1997) ISBN 088753-303-5
Returning to the Point. Poetry (Black Moss Press, 2001) ISBN 088753-360-4
the very heart of away. Poetry chapbook (Literary Arts Windsor, 2004) ISBN 0-9736653-0-0
Dorothy Mahoney 1206 Belle Isle View, Windsor, ON N8S 3G7
manfredthesheepdog@hotmail.com
