Discipline: Literature – poetry

Sarah Manguso

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Los Angeles, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2005, 2006, 2007

Sarah Manguso is the author of 300 Arguments, Ongoingness, The Guardians, The Two Kinds of Decay, Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, Siste Viator, and The Captain Lands in Paradise. Her work has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, and the Rome Prize, and her books have been translated into five languages. Her poems have won a Pushcart Prize and appeared in several editions of the Best American Poetry series, and her essays have appeared in in Harper's, New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and Paris Review. She lives in Los Angeles and currently teaches in the low-residency M.F.A. program at New England College.

Studios

Phi Beta

Sarah Manguso worked in the Phi Beta studio.

Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…

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