Discipline: Literature – poetry

Molly McQuade

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1996, 1999
Molly McQuade has had her poetry published in The Paris Review, The American Scholar, North American Review, Pequod, and elsewhere. Her writing has received fellowships and awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pew Charitable Trusts, PEN, the National Council of Teachers of English, and the Illinois Arts Council. Her poetry also received New York University’s Philo and Sally Higley Award. McQuade served as poetry columnist for The Hungry Mind Review and previously founded and edited the poetry review column of Publishers Weekly. Her poetry criticism has also been published in The Washington Post and Newsday, among others. A collection of her essays about poetry, Stealing Glimpses, was published by Sarabande Books in 1999. She has also edited By Herself, an anthology of essays about poetry, released by Graywolf Press in 2000.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Molly McQuade worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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