Mary Dalton is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Merrybegot, winner of the E.J. Pratt Poetry Award and a nominee for the Pat Lowther Award, Red Ledger, and Hooking. Edge, her collection of essays and reviews, appeared in 2015. Dalton’s work has been anthologized throughout Canada, in Ireland, England, Belgium, and the US.
She lives in St. John’s, where she taught for many years in the Department of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. She was an editor and co-publisher of the literary magazine TickleAce and an editor of the interdisciplinary journal Newfoundland Studies.
With Running the Goat, she has published: Cock of the Walk (a poem-phlet published in 2001), Merrybegot (chapbook featuring selections from the book of the same title, published in 2002), Between You and the Weather (2008), and Waste Ground (2017), a chapbook with wood engravings by Abigail Rorer. She is also a contributor to the second helping of Three Servings.
