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Mary Lee Bragg

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First name

Mary Lee

Last name

Bragg

ABOUT

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Biography

Mary Lee Bragg grew up in Calgary and now lives in Ottawa, where she had a career in the public service. Her award-winning poetry and short fiction have appeared in literary magazines and ezines in Canada, the United States and Cuba. She has published the novel Shooting Angels (2004) and two poetry chapbooks, How Women Work (2010) and Winter Music (2013).
Mary Lee's first poetry collection, The Landscape That Isn't There (Aeolous House, 2019), was short-listed for the Archibald Lampman award. Her second collection, Airplane Earth, was published by Silver Bow Publishing in 2024.
Mary Lee is married to the poet Colin Morton, and mother of one son, Jeffrey.

PUBLICATIONS AND RECOGNITION

Books and other publications

Shooting Angels, novel (2004, Baico Publishing)
How Women Work, poetry chapbook (2010, Grove Avenue Press)
Winter Music, poetry chapbook (2012, Tree Press)
The Landscape That Isn't There, poetry book (2019, Aeolus House Press)
Airplane Earth (2024, Silver Bow Publishing)

Awards and other achievements

Tree Chapbook Contest, 2012, for Winter Music. "There's a constant battle in these poems between an inner tranquility and an outer chaos, a fight to make sense of an ambivalent world that leaks in through our best defences." Matthew Tierney, Judge

Short-listed for the 2019 Archibald Lampman Award for The Landscape That Isn't There.

Poetic forms and styles

Print poetry

Other writing expertise

Creative non-fiction
Literary fiction

Translations

I speak French fluently, and have translated poetry from French to English.

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Email at mlbragg@sympatico.ca

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