Maura Dooley
Maura Dooley | |
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| Born | 18 May 1957 Truro, England |
| Occupation | Poet and writer |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of York University of Bristol |
| Employer | Goldsmiths, University of London |
| Notable works | Life Under Water (2008) |
| Notable awards | Eric Gregory Award Cholmondeley Award |
Maura Dooley (born 18 May 1957) is a British poet and writer. She has published five collections of poetry and edited several anthologies. She is the winner of the Eric Gregory Award in 1987 and the Cholmondeley Award in 2016, and was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize (single poem) in 1997 and again in 2015. Her poetry collections Life Under Water (2008) and Kissing a Bone (1996) were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.