Liz Countryman worked on her first collection of poems, A Forest Almost, which was selected by Graham Foust as the winner of the 2016 Subito Press Poetry Prize and was published by Subito in 2017. She completed her Ph.D. in creative writing at the University of Houston and joined the English Department at the University of South Carolina as Writer in Residence. She is also coeditor of the poetry journal Oversound.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Elizabeth Countryman
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Columbia, SC
MacDowell Fellowships: 2012
More:
www.lizcountryman.com
Studios
Wood
Elizabeth Countryman worked in the Wood studio.
Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…