Katrina Roberts, The Mina Schwabacher Professor in English & the Humanities and Director of the Visiting Writers Reading Series at Whitman College, is author of Underdog; Friendly Fire; The Quick; How Late Desire Looks, and Lace. She edited the anthology Because You Asked: A Book of Answers on the Art & Craft of the Writing Life. Her poems have been included in The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Best American Poetry, The Bread Loaf Anthology of New American Poets, and elsewhere. Her visual erasures and reviews, poetry comics, and graphic pieces appear widely in journals such as BOMB, Brink, Interim, The Ilanot Review, Thrush, American Journal of Poetry, Root & Star, Poetry Northwest, Permafrost, The Journal, and in anthologies including Evergreen: Fairy Tales, Essays, and Fables from the Dark Northwest.
Katrina Roberts
Studios
MacDowell
Katrina Roberts worked in the MacDowell studio.
Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…