Camille Rankine is the author of Slow Dance with Trip Wire, selected by Cornelius Eady for the Poetry Society of America's 2010 New York Chapbook Fellowship. The recipient of a 2010 "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Prize, her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including American Poet, The Baffler, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, Octopus Magzine, Paper Darts, and Tin House. Her work examines alienation, communication, and interconnection on both interpersonal and cultural levels, and investigates our methods of relating to and understanding each other and our own history, geography, politics, and culture. She is assistant director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Manhattanville College.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Camille Rankine
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2013
More:
www.camillerankine.com
Studios
Wood
Camille Rankine worked in the Wood studio.
Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…