Discipline: Literature – fiction, Literature – poetry

Sam Swope

Discipline: Literature – fiction, Literature – poetry
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2008, 2010

Sam Swope worked on a book of poems for children. His musical adaptation of his book, The Araboolies of Liberty Street, premiered in Washington, D.C., in 2007.

Studios

Heyward

Sam Swope worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…

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