Kathleen McConnell

Kathleen McConnell is a Canadian academic and writer. A professor of English literature at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, 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. and won the Gerald Lampert Award in 2003.

Her chapbook, Reunion: Drawings (2004), was co-produced with artist Elizabeth MacKenzie,

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.

She has written essays, including Omar Khadr Is Not Harry Potter 2009.