Lannan Foundation

Saskia Hamilton, Poet - Marfa, Spring 2000

Saskia Hamilton is a graduate of Kenyon College in Ohio. She received her M.A. from New York University in 1991. Ms. Hamilton has been the Director of the Literary Programs at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. and the Lannan Foundation. She is currently a fellow at the Bunting Institute of Radcliff University and is editing a collection of the letters of Robert Lowell.

During her Lannan residency Ms. Hamilton continued work on the Lowell book and completed several poems. Ms. Hamilton lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts and her first book of poetry is called As For Dream (Greywolf Press, 2001).