Maura Dooley is a British poet and writer. She has published 5 collections of Poetry and edited several anthologies. She is winner of the Eric Gregory Award in 1987, the Cholmondeley Award in 2016 and was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize (single poem) in 1997 and again in 2015. Her poetry collections Life Under Water (2008) and Kissing A Bone (1996) were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.