Mary Dorcey
(1950 - living) Ireland
Poet, short story writer and journalist
Dorcey was rised in County Dublin, Ireland, but she also lived in England, France, the USA, and Japan. She was co-founder of Irish Women United, a national feminist group in Dublin, and of the Irish Gay Rights movement. She has worked on the feminist papers Bashee and Wicca.
Her first volume of poetry, Kindling, appeared in 1982. A short-story collection, A Noise from the Woodshed, came out in 1989. Her work, which has been widely anthologized, focuses on women, and on women's erotic relationships with each other. She won The Rooney Prize for Literature in 1990.
Excerpts from: Gabriele Griffin, Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay and Writing, Routledge, London, 2002
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