Discipline: Literature

Elisabeth Stevens

Discipline: Literature
Region: Baltimore, MD
MacDowell Fellowships: 1981

Elisabeth Stevens is a fiction writer, poet, art critic, and graphic artist. She is the author of six collections of short fiction, five books of poetry and a number of art catalogues and monographs. She has illustrated and designed many of her books and exhibited her etchings, linocuts and silverpoints at museums and art galleries throughout the U.S. A number of her books are now being distributed by Syracuse University Press and North Country Books. Stevens is a former art and architecture critic of The Baltimore Sun and a former art critic of The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Trenton Times. A graduate of Wellesley College, she holds a M.A. with high honors in contemporary literature from Columbia University. As a writer, critic and artist, she has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, Villa Montalvo, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Yaddo.

Studios

Firth

Elisabeth Stevens worked in the Firth studio.

Originally a working barn perched atop the namesake hill of Hillcrest Farm, this building was converted to serve the arts in 1956. A grand set of windows was installed to make the large interior suitable for visual artists, bringing in abundant natural light from the north. The addition of a screened porch and accessible entrance ramp…

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