Discipline: Literature – poetry

Jessica Garratt

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Riverdale Park, MD
MacDowell Fellowships: 2004, 2015

Jessica Garratt polished her second poetry manuscript and began her third. Her first book, Fire Pond, won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize and came out in 2009.

Studios

Schelling

Jessica Garratt worked in the Schelling studio.

Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…

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