Discipline: Literature – poetry

Crystal Williams

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Portland, OR
MacDowell Fellowships: 2010

Crystal Williams worked on a fourth collection of poems and a memoir. Her third book of poetry, Troubled Tongues, was awarded the 2009 Long Madgett Poetry Prize. She is a writer and an advocate. She serves as Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion and Professor of English at Boston University.

Portrait by Adrianne Mathiowetz

Studios

Banks

Crystal Williams worked in the Banks studio.

Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…

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