Mary Dorcey
Mary Dorcey was born in Dublin.
Her poetry includes
Kindling (London, Onlywomen Press, 1989);
Moving into the Space Cleared by Our Mothers (Galway; Salmon, 1991);
The River That Carries Me (Salmon Poetry, 1995); and Like Joy in Season, Like Sorrow (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 2001).
Her fiction includes
A Noise from the Woodshed: Short Stories ( London, Onlywomen Press, 1989);Scarlet O'Hara [A novella contained
in the anthology In and Out of Time](London. Onlywomen Press, 1990); and the novel
Biography of Desire ( Dublin, Poolbeg 1997).
She has staged two dramatisations of poetry, In the Pink; and Sunny Side Plucked (Dublin, Project Arts Centre).
She won The Rooney Prize for Literature in 1990.
She is a Research Associate at Trinity College Dublin and a writer in residence at the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies where she gives seminars in contemporary English literature
She lives in Dublin.
