Discipline: Literature – poetry

Annette Allen

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Louisville, KY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1993, 1995

Annette Allen is the director of the Humanities Doctoral Program at the University of Louisville, and president of the Kentucky Writers’ Coalition. She also has taught literature and writing at Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC, where she was director of the Center for Women Writers. Her poems have appeared in The Southern Poetry Review, The Greensboro Review, Boulevard, and Poetry East. Her latest collection is entitled A Country of Light.

Studios

New Hampshire

Annette Allen worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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