[1][2] Mary Dalton was born in the parish of Harbour Main, Newfoundland and Labrador.
[3][2] She edited Newfoundland Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal in 1987 and was editor and co-publisher of TickleAce.
SPARKS celebrates the literary creations of Newfoundland and Labrador and showcases writers at various stages of their creative lives.
[5] She is Professor Emerita in the Department of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's[6] and Poet Laureate of the City of St.
[7][8] Her latest collection of poems is the limited-edition letter-press chapbook Waste Ground (Running the Goat, 2017), with engravings by Abigail Rorer of Massachusetts.