Discipline: Literature – poetry

Sierra Nelson

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Seattle, WA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2012

Sierra Nelson worked on new poems and other collaborative material for a project with visual artist Loren Erdrich. Her previous chapbook with Erdrich, I Take Back the Sponge Cake, won NYU's Washington Square Award for Collaboration and was released in March 2012.

Studios

Phi Beta

Sierra Nelson 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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