Discipline: Literature

Darby Sanders

Discipline: Literature
Region: Houston, TX
MacDowell Fellowships: 1996

Darby Sanders is a writer from Athens, Georgia. He’s held residencies at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the MacDowell Colony, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. He earned an MFA in Fiction from the University of Houston and an MA in Creative Writing from Boston University. He is a recipient of the Stanley Elkin Memorial Award for Fiction, and his work won First Prize for Short Fiction from the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers. His stories have been published in journals such as The New Delta Review, West Branch, The Colorado Review, and The Blue Mesa Review, among others.

Studios

Heyward

Darby Sanders worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…

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