Discipline: Literature – poetry

Joanna Solfrian

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2006

Joanna Solfrian is the author of Visible Heavens (Kent State University Press), winner of the Wick Poetry Prize. Joanna Solfrian's work has appeared in journals such as The Harvard Review, Margie, The Southern Review, Pleiades, Image, Spoon River Poetry Review, and also in the internationally-touring art exhibit “Speak Peace: American Voices Respond to Vietnamese Children's Paintings.” After graduating from the Stonecoast M.F.A. program, she was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship and nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Studios

Phi Beta

Joanna Solfrian worked in the Phi Beta studio.

Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…

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