Discipline: Literature

Susan Sink

Discipline: Literature
Region: Long Beach, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1994
More: www.susansinkblog.com
Susan Sink is a poet and writer living on 80 acres in St. Joseph, MN. She is the author of a book of poems, The Way of All the Earth. Her poems and stories have been published in national literary magazines, including Poetry, Chicago Review, Santa Monica Review, Spoon River Anthology, and others. She is also the author of The Art of The Saint John’s Bible, a series (now collected in one volume) exploring the art and theology behind The Saint John’s Bible, a hand-written, hand-illuminated bible by calligrapher Donald Jackson.

Studios

Wood

Susan Sink worked in the Wood studio.

Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…

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