Discipline: Literature – poetry

Nuar Alsadir

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1997

Nuar Alsadir is a poet, essayist, and psychoanalyst. She is the author of the poetry collections Fourth Person Singular, a finalist for the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 2017 Forward Prize for Best Collection; and More Shadow Than Bird (2012). She is a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities and works as a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York.

Studios

Star

Nuar Alsadir worked in the Star studio.

Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…

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