[2][3] Kathy McConnel was born on July 17, 1961, in Peterborough Ontario.
Her involvement in writing communities includes: Kathy Mac wrote Unnatural Habitats, Published on the Storyspace platform in 1994 in The Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext Volume 3, Number 3, and bundled with Kathryn Cramer's In Small and Large Pieces; Her 2002 poetry collection Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth (Roseway Press) was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2002 Governor General's Awards,[4] and won the Gerald Lampert Award in 2003.
[5] Her chapbook, Reunion: Drawings (2004), was co-produced with artist Elizabeth MacKenzie,[3] Her second poetry collection, The Hundefraulein Papers, (Roseway Press) was published in 2009,[6] Her third poetry collection, Human Misunderstanding, was published in 2017.
[8] Her first academic work, Pain, Porn and Complicity: Women Heroes from Pygmalion to Twilight, was published in 2012.
[9] She has written essays, including Omar Khadr Is Not Harry Potter 2009.