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Life and career
Mary Dalton was born in the parish of Harbour Main, Newfoundland and Labrador.
She edited ''Newfoundland Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal'' in 1987 and was editor and co-publisher of
''TickleAce. A literary journal of Newfoundland and Labrador'' from 1980 to 1986.
Dalton founded the SPARKS Literary Festival in 2009 and served also as the festival's director for the first six years. SPARKS celebrates the literary creations of Newfoundland and Labrador and showcases writers at various stages of their creative lives. It is what Dalton has called a 'word spree'".
She is Professor Emerita in the Department of English at
Memorial University of Newfoundland
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in St. John's and Poet Laureate of the City of St. John’s.
Her latest collection of poems is the limited-edition letter-press chapbook ''Waste Ground'' (Running the Goat,2017), with engravings by Abigail Rorer of Massachusetts.
Awards and honors
Dalton has won various awards for her poetry, among them the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Award for Poetry in 1997, 2002 and 2006, as well as the TickleAce/Cabot Award for Poetry in 1998. Her collection ''Merrybegot'' (2003) was awarded the 2005 E. J. Pratt Poetry Award and the
Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award
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for Poetry. It was also shortlisted for the 2004 all-genre
Winterset Award The Winterset Award is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council to a work judged to be the best book, regardless of genre, published by a writer from Newfoundland and Labrador.
, the 2004
Pat Lowther Award
The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador /ref>