M.T. Dohaney

M.T. (Jean) Dohaney was born in the small village of Point Verde, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. She completed her BA in English at the University of New Brunswick and a Masters and PhD in literature at the University of Maine and Boston University. In 1988 she released her first novel, The Corrigan Women. She followed this with To Scatter Stones and A Fit Month for Dying. In 1996 she won the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize for A Marriage of Masks. In 2000, her filmscript Come Back, Paddy Reilly won the Atlantic Film Festival/CBC Writer's Project and is currently in development as a feature film by Camelia Frieberg (Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter.)

A Fit Month for Dying

The Corrigan Women

When Things Get Back to Normal

To Scatter Stones