Kathy Mac’s "Unnatural Habitats"
Kathy Mac's Biography
Kathy Mac, author of Unnatural Habitats, was born in 1961 Peterborough, Ontario. Her book of poems Human Misunderstanding (Roseway, 2017) was a shortlisted for the Fiddlehead Poetry Book prize of the New Brunswick Book Awards. Her previous poetry books are The Hundefräulein Papers (Roseway, 2009) about the years she spent as a live-in dog-sitter of numerous crazy English Setters owned by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, and Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth (Roseway, 2002) which won the Gerald Lampert Award for the best first book of poems in Canada and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award. As Kathleen McConnell, she’s also published a book of essays about women in contemporary popular culture: Pain, Porn and Complicity: Women Heroes from Pygmalion to Twilight (Wolsak & Wynn, 2012).
Mac runs, and teaches in, the Creative Writing programs in the English Department at St. Thomas University, Fredericton, Canada. In the summers she sometimes travels on Experiential Learning courses as support faculty (England 2014, Ireland 2016, and England again, 2017). She is the faculty advisor for the Atlantic Canadian Poets Archive (acpa.ca) and Poetic Places Fredericton (poeticplacesfredericton.ca).
A strong believer in writing communities, Mac is one third of the ruling triumvirate of Fredericton NB’s Odd Sundays reading series. She also belongs to Fredericton's WolfTree Writers, the Writers Federation of New Brunswick, the League of Canadian Poets, and The Writers Union of Canada.
Adapted from Kathy Mac's personal website.