Discipline: Literature – poetry

Edgar Kunz

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Oakland, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2018

Edgar Kunz is a poet from Massachusetts. He has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Vanderbilt University, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His poems have appeared in AGNI, New England Review, Ploughshares, Narrative, Gulf Coast, and Best New Poets 2015 & 2017. He is currently a visiting lecturer at Goucher College and teaches in the low residency M.F.A. program at Salve Regina University. His first book, TAP OUT, which he finished editing at MacDowell, was published by Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in spring 2019.

Made at MacDowell

Fellow Works Supported by MacDowell

Tap Out (Poetry Collection)

Studios

Sorosis

Edgar Kunz worked in the Sorosis studio.

Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…

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