Mary Kinzie is a poet and critic who currently teaches at Northwestern University, where she earned her B.A. She won Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson fellowships to do graduate work at the Free University of Berlin and Johns Hopkins University, where she earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in English. Her other honors include the Folger Shakespeare Library’s 2008 O.B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize, Guggenheim Foundation Awards, the Illinois Arts Council Award, a MacDowell Fellowship, and an award from The Poetry Society of America. Kinzie has published several collections of critical essays as well as poetry. Since 1979, she has been head of the undergraduate creative writing program at Northwestern University.
Discipline:
Literature
Mary Kinzie
Discipline:
Literature
Region: Evanston, IL
MacDowell Fellowships: 1979
Studios
Watson
Mary Kinzie worked in the Watson studio.
Built in 1916 in memory of Regina Watson of Chicago, a musician and teacher, this studio was donated by a group of her friends, along with funds for its maintenance. Originally designed to serve as a composers’ studio with room for performance, Watson was used as a recital hall for chamber music for a…