Discipline: Literature – poetry

Gary Short

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Sacramento, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1992, 1996, 1997

Gary Short is the author of three poetry collections: Theory of Twilight (Ahsahta Press, 1994); Flying Over Sonny Liston (University of Nevada Press, 1996), which won the Western States Book Award; and 10 Moons and 13 Horses (University of Nevada Press, 1996). He has been a Stegner fellow at Stanford, a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and has had residencies at MacDowell, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He received a Pushcart Prize for 2008 and has been awarded grants and fellowships from the Nevada Arts Council, the Sierra Nevada Arts Council, Writers at Work, and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. A former editor for Hayden's Ferry Review, Shankpainter, and Great Basin Magazine, he recently lived in Guatemala and now teaches at the University of Mississippi.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Gary Short worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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