Gary Gildner is the author of twenty books, including poetry, fiction, and memoir. His previous poetry collection, The Bunker in the Parsley Fields, won the Iowa Poetry Prize. His other awards include the William Carlos Williams, Theodore Roethke, and Pushcart prizes and the National Magazine Award for fiction. He has held fellowships from the NEA, Breadloaf, MacDowell, Yaddo, and Fulbright lectureships to Poland and Czechoslovakia. He lives in Idaho's Clearwater Mountains.
Discipline:
Literature
Gary Gildner
Discipline:
Literature
Region: Grangeville, ID
MacDowell Fellowships: 1974
Studios
Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)
Gary Gildner worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.
Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…