Mary Dorcey, the author of ten books, is an Irish poet, novelist and short story writer, feminist and LGBT activist. "Life Holds Its Breath." her latest collection was published this year, 2022 by Salmon Poetry. An elected member of Aosdana: the Irish Academy of Artists and Writers, she was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for her first collection of stories "A Noise from the Woodshed.' She has won critical acclaim internationally for her portrayal of romantic and erotic relationships between women and for her subversive and tender exploration of the mother/daughter dynamic. Her collection" New and Selected Poems" was published by Salmon Poetry in 2017.