Discipline: Literature – poetry

Suzanne Zweizig

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Washington, D.C.
MacDowell Fellowships: 2008

Suzanne Zweizig is the translation editor for Poet Lore. Her poetry has appeared in such publications as Beloit Poetry Journal, Subtropics, Verse Daily, and Poet Lore, Waccamaw Review. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Washington D.C. Arts Commission and was a semi-finalist for The Nation/Discovery prize in 2003. She holds an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Florida, where she studied with German translator Michael Hofmann, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Studios

Wood

Suzanne Zweizig 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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