Discipline: Literature – poetry

Violeta Vicente Miguelez

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Stanford, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2025

Violeta Miguelez is an Argentine author who has been living in California for the past four years. Her poems have been featured in literary magazines across various countries, including Awen (Venezuela), Extrañas Noches (Argentina), El Beisman (U.S.), Vuela Palabra (U.S.), and Periódico Girón (Cuba).

At MacDowell, Vicente Miguelez worked on a verse novel about sexual awakening in adolescence. The work follows the reflections, sensations, and experiences of two teenagers spending the summer on the coast of Brazil, a setting where nature is steeped in eroticism.

Studios

Calderwood

Violeta Vicente Miguelez 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. Burr-McCallum Architects of Williamstown, MA, provided the award-winning design in 1999; and the construction of the handsome studio was completed in time for its first artist to arrive early in 2000. With a series of double-hung casement…

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