M. F. McAuliffe was born and educated in South Australia and Victoria, has an Honours degree in English from Flinders University and a Graduate Diploma of Art from Swinburne College of Technology. She has worked as an English instructor in high schools and Technical Colleges in South Australia and Victoria, and in film and print libraries in Melbourne, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon.Her fiction and poems have appeared in The Clarion Awards, Overland, Australian Short Stories, Prairie Schooner, Poezija (Zagreb), Thraca (Athens), The Writing Disorder, Unlikely Stories Mark V, and other print and online venues.In May 2000, her long poem "Orpheus" the libretto for the La Mama (Melbourne) production "Orpheus, an Australian Tragedy" at the Courthouse Theatre, Carlton. (Music by Melbourne composer Dindy Vaughan.) Her poem "Crucifix I" appeared in the Yoko Ono installation "Arising" in the Reykjavik Art Museum, 2016-2017. She is co-author of the poetry collection Fighting Monsters (with Judith Steele) and the limited edition artist's book, Golems Waiting Redux (with Portland, Oregon artist and sculptor Daniel Duford). She is author of The Crucifixes and Other Friday Poems, 25 Poems on the Death of Ursula K. Le Guin, the novella Seattle and the story cycle I'm Afraid of Americans.A long-time resident of Portland, Oregon, she is co-founder and co-editor of the Portland-based, completely multilingual journal Gobshite Quarterly (2002- ). In 2008 she co-founded its offshoot press, Reprobate/GobQ Books, where she edits and co-edits collections of poetry and fiction.
