Discipline: Literature – poetry

Philip Schultz

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1975, 1976, 1979

Philip Schultz is the founder and director of the Writers Studio in New York. He earned a B.A. from San Francisco State University and an M.A. from the Iowa Writers Workshop. He is the author of numerous poetry collections, among them Like Wings (1978), winner of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in literature; Deep Within the Ravine (1984), awarded the Academy of American Poets Lamont Prize; The Holy Worm of Praise (2002); Living in the Past (2004); the Pulitzer Prize–winning Failure (2007); and The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems (2010).

Studios

Banks

Philip Schultz worked in the Banks studio.

Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…

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