Discipline: Literature – poetry

Lola Haskins

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Lacrosse, FL
MacDowell Fellowships: 1998
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Lola Haskins has published her poetry in The Atlantic, the London Review of Books, London Magazine, The New York Quarterly, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, and elsewhere, as well as having been broadcast on NPR and BBC radio. She has published 14 collections of poems, a poetry advice book, and a non-fiction book about 15 Florida cemeteries. Haskins has been awarded three book prizes, two NEA fellowships, four Florida Cultural Affairs fellowships, the Emily Dickinson/Writer Magazine award from Poetry Society of America, and several prizes for narrative poetry. She retired from teaching computer science at the University of Florida in 2005 and served from then until 2015 on the faculty of Rainier Writers Workshop.

Studios

Phi Beta

Lola Haskins worked in the Phi Beta studio.

Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…

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