Dorothy Kathleen May Livesay, OC, OBC, FRSC (October 12, 1909 – December 29, 1996) was a Canadian poet. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the daughter of J.F.B. Livesay and Florence Randal Livesay, she moved to Toronto, Ontario with her family in 1920. Livesay received a BA in 1931 from Trinity College in the University of Toronto and received a diploma from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Social Work in 1934. She also studied at the Sorbonne and University of British Columbia.

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  • Dorothy Kathleen May Livesay, OC, OBC, FRSC (October 12, 1909 – December 29, 1996) was a Canadian poet. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the daughter of J.F.B. Livesay and Florence Randal Livesay, she moved to Toronto, Ontario with her family in 1920. Livesay received a BA in 1931 from Trinity College in the University of Toronto and received a diploma from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Social Work in 1934. She also studied at the Sorbonne and University of British Columbia. Her first collection of poetry, Green Pitcher (1928), was published when she was only nineteen. She worked for UNESCO in Paris in 1959 and in Northern Rhodesia as a field worker from 1960 to 1963. From 1951 until 1984, she was an instructor and a writer-in-residence at many Canadian universities, including the University of British Columbia (1951-53 and 1966-68), University of New Brunswick (1966-1968), University of Alberta (1968-1971), University of Victoria (1972-1974), University of Manitoba (1974-76), Simon Fraser University (1980-82), and University of Toronto (1983-84). In 1937 she married Duncan Macnair, they had two children Peter Macnair and Marcia. In 1975 she founded the literary quarterly Contemporary Verse 2. She died in Victoria, British Columbia in December 1996.
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