Claire Wahmanholm is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Meltwater (Milkweed Editions 2023), which was a finalist for the 2024 Minnesota Book Award and the 2024 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and was a 2025 National Book Foundation Science + Literature selection. She was a 2020-2021 McKnight Writing Fellow, as well as the winner of the 2022 Montreal International Poetry Prize for her poem “Glacier.”
While at MacDowell, Wahmanholm finished a book-length poem titled "What World."
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Calderwood
Claire Wahmanholm worked in the Calderwood studio.
In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Stanford Calderwood, a newspaperman in his youth who later went on to establish an investment firm, was a lover of nonfiction and was a member of MacDowell’s board of directors…
