Mag Mawhinney
Western & Cowboy Poetry
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Mag’s rural roots are proudly set in the Canadian West. She was born in Duncan, BC and, at the time, lived in a float house on the edge of Lake Cowichan, a little logging hamlet on Vancouver Island. When she was eight years old, her family moved to the Cariboo Region of BC and began a homestead logging business in the bush, just outside of 100 Mile House. Homesteads and ranches surrounded them and that is where Mag learned about the “real west”.
Mag also enjoys freelance writing and has been published internationally in numerous magazines, anthologies, newspapers and web sites, winning some awards for her articles and for poetry, in all genres. Western publications and web sites her articles and reviews have appeared in are: Canadian Cowboy Country, cowboypoetry.com, I.M. Cowgirl, Cowboy Troubadour, Cariboo Calling, and Western People.
In 2007 she was awarded Honourable Mention for her poem, “Those Who Have Gone Before”, sponsored by BC Cowboy Heritage Society and Pacific Horse Journal.
In March 2008, she received an “8 Seconds” Award for her poem, “Winter Range”, in the global Lariat Laureate Competition at cowboypoetry.com.
Her third poetry book “Dreams of Fast Horses”, states—“she writes with a humor that sometimes stretches the truth, but she also shows her sensitivity to the human spirit and her love for rural life.”
Mag presently lives in Cobble Hill, Vancouver Island, near her birthplace.
Mag (far right) with her Dad and sister, 1950