John Spaulding was born in New Hampshire and grew up in Vermont. He holds degrees in English and psychology and earned a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Arizona, Tucson. He has worked as a psychologist for the Phoenix Indian Medical Center and the Puget Sound Service Unit of Indian Health Services. He teaches writing at Pima Community College in Tucson. Spaulding is the author of The Roses of Starvation (1987); Walking in Stone (1989), in which he imagines the lives of the colonists and Native Americans; The White Train (2004), chosen by Henry Taylor for the National Poetry Series; and Hospital (2011). His collections delve into history, myth, and the American landscape, often accessing a variety of voices. Susan Donnelly noted that his work “brings images from history’s shadows into deceptive clarity, only to halt us with their mystery, omen, threat, and surprise.” Spaulding also coedited the cookbook Civil War Recipes: Receipts from the Pages of Godey’s Lady’s Book (1999) with this mother, Lily May Spaulding, a former nurse and restaurant owner.
John Spaulding
Studios
Banks
John Spaulding worked in the Banks studio.
Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…