- Born: 12 OCT 1909 – Winnipeg, Manitoba
- Died: 29 DEC 1996 – Victoria, British Columbia
- Achievements:
- Governor-General’s Award for Day and Night in 1944
- Governor-General’s Award for in 1947
- Lorne Pierce Medal for distinguished service to Canadian literature in 1947
- D.Litt. from the University of Waterloo in 1972
- Officer of the Order of Canada in 1987
- Order of British Columbia in 1992
- Works:
- Green Pitcher (1928)
- Signpost (1932)
- Day and Night (1944)
- Poems for People (1947)
- Call My People Home (1950)
- New Poems (1955)
- Selected Poems of Dorothy Livesay (1957)
- The Colour of God’s Face (1964)
- The Unquiet Bed (1967)
- The Documentaries (1968)
- Plainsongs (1969)
- Collected Poems: The Two Solitudes (1968)
- A Winnipeg Childhood (1973)
- Nine Poems of Farewell (1973)
- Ice Age (1975)
- The Woman I Am (1977)
- Right Hand Left Hand (1977)
- The Raw Edges: Voices from Our Time (1981)
- The Phases of Love (1983)
- Feeling the Worlds (1984)
- Beeyond War: The Poetry (1985)
- Selected Poems: The Self-Completing Tree (1986)
- Died: 29 DEC 1996 – Victoria, British Columbia