Discipline: Literature – poetry

Cynthia Huntington

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Hanover, NH
MacDowell Fellowships: 2002
Cynthia Huntington was born in Meadville, PA. She earned a B.A. at Michigan State University and an M.A. from the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. Huntington’s free verse poems often examine the bare mind, restlessly turning the form of the individual against both built and natural environments, mapping both threat and respite against a shifting screen of personal memory. Huntington is the author of several collections of poetry, including The Fish-Wife (1985); We Have Gone to the Beach (1996), which won the Beatrice Hawley Award and the Jane Kenyon Award; Levis Prize-winner The Radiant (2003); and Heavenly Bodies (2012), which was nominated for a National Book Award; as well as the nonfiction prose volume The Salt House (1998). Her honors include grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Former poet laureate of New Hampshire, Huntington has also chaired the poetry jury for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. She is a professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth College.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Cynthia Huntington worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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