Discipline: Literature – poetry

Sonya Dorman

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Taos, NM
MacDowell Fellowships: 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977

Sonya Dorman (1924–2005) was the working name of Sonya Dorman Hess. She was born in New York City and died in Taos, New Mexico. She is best known outside of the world of science fiction as a poet. One of her poems, Corruption of Metals, received honors within science fiction circles by winning the Rhysling Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Her best-known work of science fiction is the story “When I Was Miss Dow,” which has been reprinted numerous times and received a James Tiptree retrospective award nomination.

She, also appeared in Harlan Ellison’s anthology Dangerous Visions, with the story "Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird."


Studios

Mansfield

Sonya Dorman worked in the Mansfield studio.

The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…

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