Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Sarah Silbert

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Braintree, VT
MacDowell Fellowships: 1994, 2004

Sarah Silbert leads creative writing workshops around the country to people of all ages in a wide variety of settings, including private and public schools, colleges and pre-schools, homeless shelters and hospitals, libraries and prisons, GED programs and more. She is a graduate of Harvard University in Women Studies and Bennington’s M.F.A. program and has taught creative writing at Vermont Technical College for fifteen years. Sarah founded the college’s Anthology of Creative Writing and directs a community literacy program, which connects college students with elementary schools.

At MacDowell, Sarah Silbert, completed a draft of her novel, No Dominian. She also worked on two new essays to add to her collection, The Green Man. Segments of this collection have been published in Agni, Hope Magazine, Ploughshares, and The Sun.

Studios

MacDowell

Sarah Silbert worked in the MacDowell studio.

Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…

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