Discipline: Literature – poetry

Meghan O'Rourke

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2009, 2011

At MacDowell, Meghan O'Rourke worked on a few prose projects and new poems. She is the author of the memoirs The Long Goodbye and The Invisible Kingdom and the poetry collections Once, Halflife, and Sun in Days.

Studios

Schelling

Meghan O'Rourke worked in the Schelling studio.

Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…

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