Cary Waterman is a poet and non-fiction writer. She is the author of four books of poems. Her most recent collection, BOOK OF FIRE was a finalist for the Midwest Book Award. Her previous collection, WHEN I LOOKED BACK YOU WERE GONE, was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. Her poems are included in the anthologies Poets Against the War, Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-territorial Days to the Present, Where One Voice Ends Another Begins: 150 Years of Minnesota Poetry, Poetry City USA, Volume 2, The Logan House Anthology of 21st Century American Poetry, In the Middle, and A Geography of Poets. She received second place in The Common Ground poetry contest, was a finalist in The New Guard poetry contest and has received several Pushcart nominations. She has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Bush Foundation, including the Loft McKnight Award of Distinction for Poetry. She has had residencies at MacDowell and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland. She is assistant professor of English at Augsburg College in Minneapolis where she teaches in the undergraduate program and is poetry/memoir mentor in the low-residency M.F.A. program.
Cary Waterman
Studios
Star
Cary Waterman worked in the Star studio.
Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…