Grace "Betsy" Bonner is an American poet and educator. She holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia University and a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. Round Lake is her first book of poetry, published in September 2016 by Four Way Books. She is a MacDowell Fellow and the former director of the 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center. She has taught literature and creative writing at the Pierrepont School in Westport, CT and in Paros, Greece. Her poems have appeared in The Brooklyn Quarterly, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Parnassus, Poetry Daily, The Southampton Review, and in other publications. She has also written a memoir, Ghost Tracks. She is a mentor in PEN’s Prison Writing Program.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Betsy Bonner
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2006
Studios
MacDowell
Betsy Bonner worked in the MacDowell studio.
Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…