Discipline: Literature

Elizabeth Fisher

Discipline: Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1974, 1975, 1980

Elizabeth Fisher (1925-1982) ,was a writer and editor who in 1969 founded Aphra, a former feminist literary magazine, Fisher was the author of Sexual Evolution and the Shaping of Society, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1979. She attended Smith College, and in the 1950's worked in Rome as a cultural columnist for The Rome American.

Studios

Heyward

Elizabeth Fisher worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…

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