M. T. Dohaney

Myrtis Theresa "Jean" Dohaney (born Myrtis Theresa Judge; September 15, 1930) is a Newfoundland-born Canadian teacher and writer who lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Life and work M. T. Dohaney was born to Roger and Anne Judge in Point Verde, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. She moved to Fredericton in 1954 with her husband Walter Dohaney, whom she had married in Gander two years earlier.

In 1988, Dohaney published her first novel, The Corrigan Women, a portrait of three generations of women in Newfoundland. It was followed by When Things Get Back to Normal (1989), a journal documenting her grief after her husband Walter died in 1986. In 1992, Dohaney continued the story of The Corrigan Women with a sequel, To Scatter Stones.

In her teaching career, she first taught in the public school system in New Brunswick and then for almost twenty years at the University of New Brunswick until resigning in 1995. In that same year, she published A Marriage of Masks, which won the Thomas Head Raddall Award. With A Fit Month for Dying (2000), Dohaney completed the trilogy that began with The Corrigan Women.

In 2012, she was the recipient of the Lieutenant-Governor's Award for High Achievement in English Language Literary Arts.