Discipline: Literature

Devreaux Baker

Discipline: Literature
Region: Mendocino, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1994
Devreaux Baker is an American writer and poet. Baker has published four books of poetry, Out of the Bones of the Earth (Wild Ocean Press, 2015), Light at the Edge (Pygmy Forest Press, 1993), Beyond the Circumstance of Sight (Wild Ocean, 2009), and Red Willow People (Wild Ocean Pressm 2010). She has also received numerous prizes and awards, including the 2011 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Poetry Prize for Red Willow People, the 2012 Hawaii Council of Humanities Poetry Prize and the Woman’s Global Leadership Initiative Poetry Award. She has taught poetry workshops in France, Mexico, and the United States, worked with schools through the CPITS Program, and produced the “Voyagers” radio programof original student writing for KZYX Public Radio.

Studios

Garland

Devreaux Baker worked in the Garland studio.

Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…

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