Discipline: Literature – poetry

Mairi MacInnes

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Princeton, NJ
MacDowell Fellowships: 1981, 1982, 1984, 1986
More: www.mairimacinnes.co.uk
Mairi MacInnes (1925-2017) was an English poet, novelist, and editor whose work was published widely in the United States and the United Kingdom. Her first collection of poems, Splinters, was published in 1953. Her poetry appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Hudson River, Canto, and Lines, among others. She has also published two novels, Admit One (1956) and The Quondam Wives (1993), and a memoir, Clearances: A Memoir (2007).

Studios

Heyward

Mairi MacInnes worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…

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