Discipline: Literature

Brian Swann

Discipline: Literature
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1982
Brian Swann is a poet, critic, and translator who earned a B.A. and an M.A. from Queens’ College, Cambridge, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. His collections of poetry include Autumn Road (2005), which won the Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry; Snow House (2006), winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize; and In Late Light (2013). In addition to poetry, Swann has authored numerous collections of fiction, children’s books, and scholarly works. He is the poetry editor of the environmental web magazine OnEarth and has edited numerous volumes of Native American literature, including Coming to Light: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America (1994), Wearing the Morning Star: Native American Song-Poems (2005), and Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of the Algonquin Literatures of North America (2005). Swann teaches at Cooper Union in New York City.

Studios

Schelling

Brian Swann worked in the Schelling studio.

Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…

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