Discipline: Literature – poetry

Camille Guthrie

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Bennington, VT
MacDowell Fellowships: 2020

Camille Guthrie is the author of three previous books of poetry: Articulated Lair, In Captivity, and The Master Thief (Subpress). Her poems have appeared in a journals such as Boston Review, Conjunctions, The New Republic, Tin House, and many others. Her essays about poetry, in particular about Keats and Browning, have appeared on the Poetry Foundation website. Poems from Diamonds, including "Virgil, Hey," were included in the Best American Poetry anthologies 2019 and 2020. She is the director of undergraduate writing at Bennington College.

During her residency at MacDowell she completed her forthcoming book, Diamonds, which will appear in the fall of 2021 from BOA Editions. She also worked on new poems and a novel-in-progress called Dating Profile.

Made at MacDowell

Fellow Works Supported by MacDowell

Diamonds (Book)

Studios

Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)

Camille Guthrie 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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