Elizabeth Kirschner is a well-known and award-winning poet who has been writing and teaching multi-genres for four decades. She has published five volumes of poetry, one of which was nominated for the Lenore Marshall Prize, nominated for the Patterson Book Prize, and named Kirschner as the Literary Arts Fellow in the state of Maine. She has also published a memoir entitled, Walking the Bones. She served as faculty in Fairfield University’s low-residence M.F.A. in Creative Writing Program and has also taught at Boston College and Carnegie-Mellon University. Kirschner currently serves as a writing mentor and manuscript consultant and teaches workshops in and around her community in Kittery Point, ME.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Elizabeth Kirschner
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Chestnut Hill, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1982
Studios
Putnam
Elizabeth Kirschner worked in the Putnam studio.
The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…