Kathryn MacDonald
Author
|
Kathryn MacDonald
|
ABOUT KATHRYN
Poet, prose writer, and studio jeweller Kathryn MacDonald lives near Shannonville in Hastings
County.
Kathryn's poems have been published in literary journals such as Descant, The Fiddlehead, and
Northward Journal (under the name Deneau) before she took a hiatus from poetry to work at Harrowsmith
and Equinox magazines.
|
Since then, Kathryn has worked as a ghostwriter, editor, and article writer, including "Voices
from the Edge of the Island," a story that focuses on the loss of culture, which was published
in This Magazine during the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ “discovery” of the “New World.”
The poem “Earth,” published in Ascent Aspirations Magazine: Anthology Three Aqua Terra (2007) marks
Kathryn’s return to creative writing.
When Kathryn isn’t writing or offering online and weekend workshops, she transforms stones
into amulets. To see Kathryn’s jewellery, please go to http://sites.google.com/site/jewelleryartisan/
|
"KATHRYN'S WRITING PROFILE (2010)"
|
|
Calla & Édourd explores the life and love of a couple and their experience of dementia.
Award-winning writer Alistair MacLeod says: “This novella, set in Eastern Ontario, bubbles with
the details of everyday life. The cycle of the season is reflected in the lives of the central
characters. It is a hymn/lament for that which is passing and that which is past.”
Arden artist
Judith Versavel’s painting is on the cover. (Hidden Brook Press, Brighton, 2009,
ISBN 987-1-897475-39-3)
|
"Calla & Édourd" book cover
|
|
“Gatherers", a poem that celebrates Grandma Lily and Great-Aunt Julia,
“Identity”, that delves into myth, and “Across Generations”, which seeks connections, are
included in the anthology The Wisdom of Old Souls, edited by Bonita Summers.
(Hidden Brook Press, Brighton, 2008,
ISBN 978-1-897475-12-6)
|
"Wisdom of Old Souls"
book cover
|
|
The anthology, Grandmother’s Necklace, includes Kathryn’s nine-part
“Strawberry Season,” the prose-poem “Night Visitor,” and the short poem “Round,” a
tribute to cookies and Kathryn’s maternal line.
Grandmother’s Necklace, edited by Patricia Anne Elford, is a fundraiser for the Grandmothers
to Grandmothers Campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation.
(Epic Press, Belleville, 2010, ISBN 155452462-8)
|
"Grandmother's Necklace" book cover
|
|
Kathryn is co-author, with Mary Lou Morgan, of The Farm & City Cookbook,
a collection of
essays on rurality and the food system and recipes that encourage eating locally.
(Second Story Press, Toronto, 1994, ISBN 0-929005-67-8)
|
|
