Discipline: Literature – poetry

Caitlin Doyle

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Long Island, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2010

While in residence at MacDowell, Caitlin worked on poems and literary nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Atlantic, The Yale Review, PBS NewsHour Poetry Series, American Life in Poetry, Poetry Daily, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Best New Poets (University of Virginia Press), and elsewhere. She has received awards and fellowships through the Frost Farm, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Amy Award series through Poets & Writers, the Yaddo Colony, the P.E.O. Scholar Foundation, and the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, among others. Caitlin has served as the James Merrill House Writer-In-Residence in Stonington, CT; the Jack Kerouac Writer-In-Residence in Orlando, FL; the Emerging Writer-In-Residence at Penn State Altoona; the Writer-In-Residence at St. Albans School in Washington, DC; the Writer-In-Residence at Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, MI; and a Guild Hall Artist-In-Residence in East Hampton, NY. Caitlin earned an M.F.A. from Boston University as the George Starbuck Poetry Fellow and a Ph.D. as an Elliston Fellow in Poetry at the University of Cincinnati, where she served as associate editor of The Cincinnati Review.

Studios

Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)

Caitlin Doyle worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.

Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…

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