Discipline: Literature – poetry

Katherine Soniat

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Blacksburg, VA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1996
More: www.katherinesoniat.com
Katherine Soniat's chapbook The Goodbye Animals, winner of The Turtle Island Quarterly Chapbook Prize, was published by Foothills Press (2014). Her fifth collection of poems, The Swing Girl, (Louisiana State University Press) was selected as Best Collection of 2011 by the Poetry Council of North Carolina, and A Shared Life was awarded The Iowa Poetry Prize (University of Iowa Press) and a Virginia Prize for Poetry. Other publications include A Raft, A Boat, A Bridge (Dream Horse Press, 2012); Alluvial (Bucknell University Press); and Cracking Eggs (University Presses of Florida). Notes of Departure received the Camden Poetry Prize (Walt Whitman Center for the Arts and Humanities). Other chapbook publications include Winter Toys (Green Tower Press) and The Fire Setters (WebDelSol's Chapbook Series). She is the recipient of two Virginia Commission for the Arts Grants, a William Faulkner Award, a Jane Kenyon Award, Anne Stanford Award, and Fellowships to Yaddo, MacDowell, and to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Her work has been published in such journals as TriQuarterly, Poetry, Crazyhorse, Gettysburg Review, Antioch Review, New England Review, Kenyon Review, The Nation, New Republic, Georgia Review, and The Southern Review.

Studios

Schelling

Katherine Soniat 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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