Disciplines: Literature – poetry

Camille Guthrie

Disciplines: Literature – poetry
Region: Bennington, VT
Residencies: 2020, 2025

Camille Guthrie is the author of Diamonds (BOA Editions 2021), and three other books of poetry: Articulated Lair: Poems for Louise Bourgeois, In Captivity, and The Master Thief. Diamonds received rave reviews in the Harvard Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Globe, and other publications. Her first short story, "Dating Profile," appeared in The Sun (April 2023).

Guthrie’s recent poem Not the Wife of John Donne was published in Washington Square Review (2023) and Hilma af Klint, Quit It came out in Under a Warm Green Linden (2023-24). She is faculty and the Director of Undergraduate Writing at Bennington College and lives in Vermont with her family.

While at MacDowell in 2020, she completed Diamonds, and worked on new poems and a novel-in-progress. During her 2025 residency, Guthrie revised the manuscript of her first novel, a to-be-titled feminist romantic comedy.

Made at MacDowell

Fellow Works Supported by MacDowell

Diamonds (Book)

Studios

Barnard

Camille Guthrie worked in the Barnard studio.

Originally built near MacDowell's Union Street entrance, the Barnard Studio — which was funded by Barnard College music students — was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room. This remodeling, financed by Mrs. Thomas E. Emery of Cincinnati…

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