Performers in Canada

Doris has been a featured poet at every cowboy festival in Canada and several throughout the U.S. Born and raised in ranching country in Southern Alberta, this AWA Will Rogers award winner comes from a gene pool that includes cowboys, bushwhackers, Mounties, two-steppers, pie makers, berry pickers, and sorry team ropers. "Doris is the pre-eminent female poet in this genre and the equal of any male writing today," says Jack Hannah of the Sons of the San Joaquin.

For the past decade, Mag has been writing western/cowboy poetry and performing at major cowboy festivals, as well as other events, across Western Canada.  Her recitations have also been aired on TV and radio. Mag also enjoys freelance writing and has been published internationally in numerous magazines, anthologies, newspapers and web sites.  Western publications and web sites her articles and reviews have appeared in are: The Cowboy Times, Canadian Cowboy Country, cowboypoetry.com, I.M. Cowgirl, Cowboy Troubadour, Cariboo Calling and Western People.

In 2007 she was awarded Honorable 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."