Discipline: Literature – poetry

Mekeel McBride

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Kittery, ME
MacDowell Fellowships: 1976
Mekeel McBride is an associate professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. She has taught at Harvard University, Princeton University, Wheaton College, and Berwick Academy. She has received two National Endowment for the Arts grants and a fellowship at The Bunting Institute. Her previous books, each published by Carnegie Mellon, are Red Letter Days (1998), The Going Under of the Evening Land (1983), and No Ordinary World (1979). She lives in Kittery, Maine, near the Piscataqua River.

Studios

Schelling

Mekeel McBride worked in the Schelling studio.

Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…

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