Discipline: Literature – poetry

Jan Beatty

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Pittsburgh, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2009

Jan Beatty worked on her fourth book of poetry, to follow Red Sugar, published in April 2008 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her first book, Mad River, won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize.

Studios

Heyward

Jan Beatty worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…

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