Maura Dooley (born 18 May 1957) is a British poet and writer. She has published five collections of poetry and edited several anthologies. She is the winner of the Eric Gregory Award in 1987 and the Cholmondeley Award in 2016, and was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize (single poem) in 1997 and again in 2015.[1][2][3] Her poetry collections Life Under Water (2008) and Kissing A Bone (1996) were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.[3]
BiographyMaura Dooley was born on 18 May 1957 in Truro, Cornwall, England, to Irish parents and grew up in Bristol.[3][2] Her two brothers, Terence and Timothy, are also writers .[4] She obtained a BA (Hons) degree from the University of York in 1978 and attended the University of Bristol from 1980 to 1981.[3][5]
She was the director of the writing centre at the Arvon Foundation in Yorkshire from 1982 to 1987. From 1987 to 1993, Dooley served as programme director of literature for the Southbank Centre in London. In the 1990s, she helped develop family films for Jim Henson Productions and developed a theatre workshop for Performing Arts Labs. Dooley is currently Professor of Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London.[6]
Dooley has been a judge for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the National Poetry Competition, the Forward Prize and the London Arts New London Writers Awards.[3]
Poetry collections- Five Fifty-Five (2023)
- The Silvering (2016)
- Life under Water (2008)
- Sound Barrier (2002)
- Kissing a Bone (1996)
- Explaining Magnetism (1991)
- Dooley, Maura, ed. (2003). Honey Gatherers: A Book of Love Poems. Bloodaxe Books. p. 320. ISBN 978-1852243593. Archived from the original on 12 May 2022.
- Dooley, Maura, ed. (1997). Making for Planet Alice: New Women Poets. Seren Books. p. 176. ISBN 978-1854111920.
- Dooley, Maura; Curtis, Tony, eds. (2007). How Novelists Work. Bloodaxe Books. pp. 110. ISBN 978-1852243982.
- Ghahreman, Azita (2018), Negative of a Group Photograph (trans. Maura Dooley; Elhum Shakerifar), The Poetry Translation Centre / Bloodaxe Books. ISBN 9781780374369
- 1987: Eric Gregory Award[1]
- 2016: Cholmondeley Award[7]
- ^ a b "Past Winners of the Eric Gregory Awards". Society of Authors. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
- ^ a b "Maura Dooley". Poetry International Web. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ a b c d e "Maura Dooley". British Council. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
- ^ "Family", at Maura Dooley's website.
- ^ "Dooley, Maura 1957". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
- ^ "Professor Maura Dooley". Goldsmiths University of London. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
- ^ "Cholmondeley, Gregory, Somerset Maugham winners". The Poetry Society. 22 June 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
- Maura Dooley on the British Council website.
- Maura Dooley on Poetry International Web.
- Poem of the Week: In a dream she meets him again by Maura Dooley. Article in The Guardian, 5 September 2016.
