At home on stages all over the North American west, Doris comes from a gene pool that includes sorry team ropers, petticoated bushwhackers, hardy Canadian homesteaders, snappy two-steppers, Irish stowaways and peerless pie makers: the perfect pedigree for cowboy poetry.  Known for her wit and wordsmithing, this multi-award winning poet  is a favorite at campfires, convention halls and cowboy shindigs all over Canada and the U.S.

Born and raised in Southern Alberta ranch country, Doris Daley writes cowboy poetry that celebrates the humor, history and way of life of the west. Her great grandfather came west with the Royal North West Mounted Police in the 1870s; her family has been ranching in the Alberta foothills for five generations. She is at home reciting her rhymes in convention halls, around campfires and everywhere in between.

Now living in Calgary, Doris has been an emcee and featured performer at every cowboy festival in Canada as well as several in the United States, including Santa Clarita, Monterey, Elko, Bend Oregon, and Arvada, Colorado. She is the only Canadian ever invited to the second-oldest gathering in the United States in Alpine, Texas. In 2001 she was among a small group of cowboy entertainers chosen to perform at a command performance for Canada's Governor General, a show she also emceed.

Doris comes from a gene pool that includes ranchers, cowboys, Mounties, good cooks, sorry team ropers, Irish stowaways, bushwhackers, liars, two-steppers and saskatoon pickers. She has a brand new book, Rhyme and Reason, as well as anew CD, Poetry in Motion. Play this CD to your calves and watch them gain weight! 

"You'll soon forget she's a performer" says Gary Brown of Monterey, California "and feel like she's one of the family" While she is chasing rhymes and building poems, her husband Bob, an Orvis-endorsed fishing guide, snags brown and rainbow trout out of Alberta's world-renowned Bow River.

Website: http://www.dorisdaley.com/