Discipline: Literature – poetry

Kendra DeColo

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Nashville, TN
MacDowell Fellowships: 2015

Kendra DeColo worked on her second poetry collection. Her first book, Thieves in the Afterlife, was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the 2013 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize.

Studios

Star

Kendra DeColo worked in the Star studio.

Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…

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