Evie Shockley worked on her third book of poetry — which was still in an early and somewhat inchoate stage at the time. Her second poetry volume, *the new black,* received the 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Evie Shockley
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Jersey City, NJ
MacDowell Fellowships: 2013
Studios
Heyward
Evie Shockley 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…