Discipline: Literature – poetry

William Trowbridge

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Lee's Summit, MO
MacDowell Fellowships: 1992
More: www.williamtrowbridge.net
William Trowbridge was born in Chicago and grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. He earned a B.A. and an M.A. in English from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt. He is the author of the full-length poetry collections Enter Dark Stranger (1989), O Paradise (1995), Flickers (2000), The Complete Book of Kong (2003), Ship of Fool (2011), and Put This On, Please: New and Selected Poems (2014). His chapbooks include The Book of Kong (1986), The Four Seasons (2001), and The Packing House Cantata (2006). From 1986–2004, Trowbridge served as editor for the Laurel Review and GreenTower Press. He has received an Academy of American Poets Prize and a Pushcart Prize and has held fellowships at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, MacDowell, Ragdale, Yaddo, and the Anderson Center. In 2012, Trowbridge was appointed poet laureate of Missouri. He is a distinguished professor emeritus at Northwest Missouri State University and currently teaches in the low-residency M.F.A. program at the University of Nebraska.

Studios

Banks

William Trowbridge 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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