Pamela Alexander is an American poet. She graduated from Bates College in 1970 and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with an M.F.A. in 1973. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Boston Book Review, Orion, TriQuarterly, Poetry, The Journal, New Republic, and American Scholar. Her papers are held at Bates College. She is the author of four collections of poems: Navigable Waterways, a Yale Younger Poet selection; Commonwealth of Wings (Wesleyan University Press), Inland (an Iowa Poetry Prize winner), and Slow Fire (Ausable Press). After teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for many years, she joined the faculty of Oberlin College, where she is an associate editor of Field magazine.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Pamela Alexander
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Oberlin, OH
MacDowell Fellowships: 1992, 1993, 2001
Studios
Wood
Pamela Alexander worked in the Wood studio.
Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…