Phyllis Koestenbaum is a poetry and writing prodigy who wrote her first poem at age eight. She is currently completing a mixed-genre manuscript of essays, prose, poems, lyric essays, and short fiction. She has published eight books of poetry and several poems and essays in The Massachusetts Review, Court Green, Witness, Sentence, and more. Koestenbaum earned grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council and has been a resident at MacDowell, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Djerassi Foundation. Her poems have been twice selected for the Best American Poetry anthology. Over the years, she has also taught at Stanford University, at Foothill College Writer Conference, and privately.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Phyllis Koestenbaum
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Sunnyvale, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1984
Studios
Sorosis
Phyllis Koestenbaum worked in the Sorosis studio.
Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…