Discipline: Literature – poetry

Wendy S. Walters

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2004, 2005, 2007

Wendy S. Walters is the author of a book of poems, Longer I Wait, More You Love Me (2009) and a chapbook, Birds of Los Angeles (2005) both published by Palm Press. Her poetry has been recognized with residency fellowships from Bread Loaf, MacDowell, and Yaddo, and in 2011 she was a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Poetry. Walters’s work appears in Fence, Callaloo, Bookforum, The Iowa Review, and Harper’s Magazine. She is associate professor of poetry in the Department of Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College of The New School University.

Studios

Wood

Wendy S. Walters worked in the Wood studio.

Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…

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