Mary Dorcey

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Mary Dorcey is an Irish lesbian short story writer, poet and novelist. She won the Rooney Prize for Literature in 1990 and has been awarded three Art Council Bursaries for literature, in 1990 and 1995 and 1999. 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 and leads a creative writing workshop.

[edit] Quotes

These days of langour --

loosed of everything

but pleasure

and time.

Memories sprout

from the fissures

in her face

like grass

in a graveyard.

[edit] Publications:

• Kindling (London, Onlywomen Press, 1989)
• Moving into the Space Cleared by Our Mothers (Galway; Salmon, 1991)
• The River That Carries Me (Salmon Poetry, 1995)
• Like Joy in Season, Like Sorrow (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 2001)
• A Noise from the Woodshed: Short Stories (London, Onlywomen Press, 1989)
• Scarlet O'Hara (in the anthology In and Out of Time) (London. Onlywomen Press, 1990)
• Biography of Desire (Dublin, Poolbeg 1997)