Discipline: Literature – poetry

Anna Evans

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Hainesport, NJ
MacDowell Fellowships: 2011

I am a poet, editor, teacher and translator. My poems have appeared in various journals including the Harvard Review, 32 Poems, Atlanta Review, Rattle, and Measure. My sonnet collection, Sisters & Courtesans, comes out June 2014 from White Violet Press, and I have two books of translations from the French available from Barefoot Muse Press. I earned an MFA from Bennington College and I am editor of the Raintown Review. I teach poetry at West Windsor Art Center and English at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.

Studios

Wood

Anna Evans 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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