Discipline: Literature – poetry

Evan Smith

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Beacon, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2001, 2015

While at MacDowell Evan Dalton Smith worked on his first book of creative nonfiction, LOOKING FOR ANDY GRIFFITH. He has published poetry and essays in Slate, Paris Review, Ploughshares, the LA Times, the LA Review of Books, and elsewhere.

Studios

Wood

Evan Smith worked in the Wood studio.

Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…

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