Nicole Sealey used her time as a MacDowell Fellow to begin work on a series of poems about “Black Dolls" from the collection of Deborah Neff, which is comprised of handmade dolls created between 1850 and 1940 by African Americans for members of their own families, children they knew, as well as white children in their charge. Sealey’s debut poetry collection was published by Ecco in fall 2017.
Nicole Sealey
Disciplines:
Literature – poetry
Studios
Calderwood
Nicole Sealey worked in the Calderwood studio.
In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Stanford Calderwood, a newspaperman in his youth who later went on to establish an investment firm, was a lover of nonfiction and was a member of MacDowell’s board of directors…