Discipline: Literature

Signe Hammer

Discipline: Literature
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1979
More: www.signehammer.com
Signe Hammer has published nonfiction books, poetry, short stories, personal essays, and dozens of articles and reviews. She has been an editor at Hearst, the Atlantic Monthly Press and Harper & Row. She has written website documentation for a corporate intranet, speeches for a corporate CEO, and internal communications for the Information Technology department of a Fortune 500 corporation. As a performer, she was a founding member of Meredith Monk’s avant-garde dance-theatre company, The House. Her short stories have appeared in anthologies and Playgirl; her poetry in Fiction and the New England Review; her personal essays in the Village Voice and Working Woman. She has given readings of her own work at numerous venues, from the Knitting Factory, the Nuyorican Poets’ Café, and Dixon Place in New York, to various colleges and universities. Hammer has been an adjunct associate professor of creative writing at New York University, where she received an Award for Teaching Excellence, and has lectured at Bank Street College of Education and the New York Academy of Sciences.

Studios

Veltin

Signe Hammer worked in the Veltin studio.

Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…

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