[1] M. T. Dohaney was born to Roger and Anne Judge in Point Verde, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland.
[2] She moved to Fredericton in 1954 with her husband Walter Dohaney, whom she had married in Gander two years earlier.
[2] Dohaney attended the University of New Brunswick, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature in 1967, as well as a teaching certificate.
[4][5] It was followed by When Things Get Back to Normal (1989), a journal documenting her grief after her husband Walter passed away in 1986.
[8] With A Fit Month for Dying (2000), Dohaney completed the trilogy that began with The Corrigan Women.