Nancy Vieira Couto is the author of a poetry collection, The Face in the Water (1990), and a chapbook, Carlisle & the Common Accident (2011). Her awards include two NEA Fellowships and the 1989 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. She was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, attended Bridgewater State College, and earned her M.F.A. from Cornell University. She is the poetry editor of Epoch.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Nancy Couto
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Ithaca, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1992
Studios
New Jersey
Nancy Couto worked in the New Jersey studio.
The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…