Discipline: Literature – poetry

Kristen Case

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Temple, ME
MacDowell Fellowships: 2019

Kristen Case is a poet and scholar. Her first poetry collection, Little Arias (New Issues Press), won the Maine Literary Award for Poetry in 2016, and her second collection, Principles of Economics (Switchback Books), won the 2018 Gatewood Prize. She is also the author of several scholarly essays on Henry David Thoreau and co-editor of the volumes Thoreau at 200: Essays and Reassessments (Cambridge UP) and 21|19 Contemporary Poets in the 19th-Century Archive (Milkweed Editions).

Studios

Sorosis

Kristen Case worked in the Sorosis studio.

Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…

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