Dona Stein (b. 1935), a former Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, has received national and international poetry awards, residencies, and state and local grants for her work. Her chapbooks are Children of the Mafiosi, Heavenly Bodies, and most recently, Entering the Labyrinth, poems written while she was living in Greece. Stein has an M.A. in medieval literature, studied ancient Greek at Harvard, and holds an M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College, with additional course work at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Stein’s poems have been choreographed, set to music, and exhibited with paintings, sculptures, and in collage (permanent collection, University of California, Santa Cruz).
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Dona Stein
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Fitchburg, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1988
Studios
Sorosis
Dona Stein worked in the Sorosis studio.
Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…