Discipline: Literature – poetry

Deborah DeNicola

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Dorchester, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1994

Deborah DeNicola’s most recent publication is her spiritual memoir The Future That Brought Her Here, an Amazon Best Seller and Honorable Mention at the Los Angeles Book Festival in 2013. Inside Light, a chapbook of poetry was published in 2007. DeNicola also edited the anthology Orpheus & Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology. She was awarded a Poetry Fellowship in 1997 from the National Endowment for the Arts, received the Paul Hoover Critical Essay Award from The Packingtown Review in 2009, the Santa Barbara Poetry Award in 2008, Best of the Net Anthology Award in 2008, and a Special Mention from The Pushcart Prizes in 1992. She is the author of Where Divinity Begins, three additional chapbooks, and a full collection of poetry.

A Bread Loaf Scholar (1993), and a recipient of Fellowships from MacDowell , The Centrum Foundation (1995), The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (1997), and The Vermont Studios (1999), DeNicola was trained by the Dutch Jungian Analyst Robert Bosnak who coined the term “embodied” dream work. She teaches poetry and dream image workshops in South Florida and reviews poetry for The Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel.

Studios

Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)

Deborah DeNicola worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.

Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…

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