Dora E. McQuaid

Dora E. McQuaid is an award-winning poet, activist, speaker and teacher whose work embodies the intersections of arts and activism, service and empowerment.

Her unique blend of art, emotion and service has earned her numerous literary and service awards and honors. Dora's activism addressing sexual and domestic violence led to her portrait replacing that of former football coach and convicted pedophile Jerry Sandusky in 2012 in the Inspirations Mural near Penn State. She was honored with a Pushcart Prize nomination for poetry in 2014, as a 2012 Remarkable Woman of Taos, New Mexico, won the 2011 New Mexico Woman Writer's Fellowship from A Room of Her Own Foundation and a 2003 Pennsylvania Governor's Pathfinder Award, among others.

She is the author of the groundbreaking collection of poems, "the scorched earth", and its audio companion, the "scorched earth: spoken". Eve Ensler, award-winning author of "The Vagina Monologues", calls the scorched earth "...startling and visionary..." in the Foreword she wrote to to the Expanded, Second edition of this collection.

Dora performs, speaks and teaches internationally, publishes widely and works collaboratively with a wide array of artists, activists, change-makers and cultural creatives.

Please visit www.doramcquaid.com.