Discipline: Literature – poetry

Pamela Harrison

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Norwich, VT
MacDowell Fellowships: 1998
Pamela Harrison is an American poet and educator. She is the author of six poetry collections, most recently, What to Make of It (Turning Point, 2012). Her poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including Poetry, Beloit Poetry Journal, Georgia Review, Green Mountains Review, Cimarron Review, and Yankee Magazine. Her honors include fellowships from MacDowell and the Vermont Studio Center, as well as the PEN Northern New England Discovery Poet Award. Harrison was born and raised in Oklahoma City, and earned a B.A. from Smith College, and an M.F.A. in creative writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has taught English literature and creative writing for the University System of New Hampshire and Dartmouth College as adjunct faculty. She was married to Dr. Dennis McCullough (1944-2016), author of My Mother, Your Mother (Harper Collins, 2008.)

Studios

Garland

Pamela Harrison worked in the Garland studio.

Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…

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