Kathleen McConnell is a
Canadian
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academic and writer.
["Book launch for McConnell's collection of essays to be held at STU today". '']The Daily Gleaner
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'', January 18, 2013. A professor of English literature at
St. Thomas University in
Fredericton
Fredericton (; ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of New Brunswick. The city is situated in the west-central portion of the province along the Saint John River, which flows west to east as it bisects the city. The river is the do ...
,
New Brunswick
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, she has published both academic literature under her own name and poetry under the pen name Kathy Mac.
Life and career
Kathy McConnel was born on July 17, 1961 in Peterborough Ontario. She got her BFA in Art History in 1986 from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Her involvement in writing communities includes:
* Member of the League of Canadian Poets and the Writers’ Federations of both New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
* Edits the Living Archives series produced by the Feminist Caucus
* Active in the WolfTree Writers, a Fredericton-based women’s writing group
* Founding member of the Stand and Deliver performance group, originating at St. Thomas University in 2009.
* Is one third of the ruling triumvirate of Fredericton NB’s Odd Sundays reading series.
Works
Kathy Mac wrote ''Unnatural Habitats'', Published on the Storyspace platform in 1994 in The Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext Volume 3, Number 3, and bundled with
Kathryn Cramer
Kathryn Elizabeth Cramer (born April 16, 1962) is an American science fiction writer, editor, and literary critic.
Early years
Kathryn Cramer is the daughter of physicist John G. Cramer. She grew up in Seattle and graduated from Columbia Univ ...
's In Small and Large Pieces;
Her 2002 poetry collection ''Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth'' (Roseway Press) was a shortlisted finalist for the
Governor General's Award for English-language poetry
This is a list of recipients and nominees of the Governor General's Awards award for English-language poetry. The award was created in 1981 when the Governor General's Award for English language poetry or drama was divided.2002 Governor General's Awards
The 2002 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were presented by Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, at a ceremony at Rideau Hall on Tuesday, November 19. Each winner received a cheque for $15,000.
English
French
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, and won the
Gerald Lampert Award The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is made annually by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet. It is presented in honour of poetry promoter Gerald Lampert
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in 2003.
Her chapbook, ''Reunion: Drawings'' (2004), was co-produced with artist Elizabeth MacKenzie,
Her second poetry collection, ''The Hundefraulein Papers'', (Roseway Press) was published in 2009,
Her third poetry collection, ''Human Misunderstanding'', was published in 2017. (Roseway Press) was shortlisted for the Fiddlehead Poetry Book prize of the New Brunswick Book Awards.
Her first academic work, ''Pain, Porn and Complicity: Women Heroes from Pygmalion to Twilight'', was published in 2012.
[ This is a book of essays on pop culture.
She has written essays, including ''Omar Khadr Is Not Harry Potter'' 2009. ]
See also
* List of electronic literature authors, critics, and works
This is a list of electronic literature authors and works (that originate from digital environments), and its critics. Electronic literature is a literary genre consisting of works of literature that ''originate'' within digital environments. I ...
* Digital poetry
Digital poetry is a form of electronic literature, displaying a wide range of approaches to poetry, with a prominent and crucial use of computers. Digital poetry can be available in form of CD-ROM, DVD, as installations in art galleries, in cert ...
* E-book#History
* Electronic literature
Electronic literature or digital literature is a genre of literature encompassing works created exclusively on and for digital devices, such as computers, tablets, and mobile phones. A work of electronic literature can be defined as "a constr ...
* Hypertext fiction
Hypertext fiction is a genre of electronic literature, characterized by the use of hypertext links that provide a new context for non-linearity in literature and reader interaction. The reader typically chooses links to move from one node of text t ...
* Interactive fiction
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Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, is software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. Works in this form can be understood as literary narratives, either in the ...
* Literatronica
The term literatronica, also literatronic (Marino, 2006), was coined by Colombian mathematician and author Juan B Gutierrez (2002) to refer to electronic literature. According to Gutierrez (2006):
{{cquote, A word that describes digital narrati ...
References
21st-century Canadian poets
21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers
Canadian women poets
Canadian women non-fiction writers
People from Peterborough County
Academic staff of St. Thomas University (New Brunswick)
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Electronic literature writers
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