Mairead Small Staid was born and raised in Massachusetts. She is a graduate of Pomona College and the University of Michigan, where she won Hopwood Awards in poetry and nonfiction. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Phillips Exeter Academy, where she was the 2017-2018 George Bennett Fellow. Her essays and poems have appeared in The Believer, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, The Paris Review Daily, Ploughshares, and elsewhere.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Mairead Small Staid
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Ann Arbor, MI
MacDowell Fellowships: 2011
More:
maireadsmallstaid.com
Studios
Wood
Mairead Small Staid worked in the Wood studio.
Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…