Robin Beth Schaer is the author of the poetry collection Shipbreaking. She teaches writing in New York and Ohio, and she worked as a deckhand aboard the Tall Ship Bounty, a 180-foot ship lost in Hurricane Sandy. While at MacDowell, she worked on a series of poems that explore wreckage, on both interstellar and intimate scales -- from the collapse of stars to natural disasters and human conflicts.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Robin Schaer
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Wooster, OH
MacDowell Fellowships: 2016
More:
www.robinbethschaer.com
Studios
Banks
Robin Schaer worked in the Banks studio.
Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…