Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif’s poetry has appeared in The New Republic, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, jubilat, and others. Her work has been recognized with a “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize, a winter fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, an NEA fellowship, and a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She has most recently been selected to receive a 2014 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award as well as a 2014 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. She is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. At MacDowell in 2018, she completed a working draft of her second collection of poems, tentatively titled Customs. Her first collection, Look, also written in part at MacDowell, was a finalist for a National Book Award in 2016. She has most recently received a Holmes National Poetry Prize, a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, and the Bess Hokin Prize from POETRY Magazine
Solmaz Sharif
Studios
Schelling
Solmaz Sharif worked in the Schelling studio.
Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…