Discipline: Literature – poetry

Gardner McFall

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1980, 1986, 2012

Gardner McFall worked on new poems for a third volume of poetry. She wrote the libretto for AMELIA, an opera composed by Daron Hagen, commissioned by Seattle Opera and premiered there in 2010.

Studios

Garland

Gardner McFall worked in the Garland studio.

Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…

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