Mary Szybist Wins Bellagio Residency

Associate Professor of English Mary Szybist has been invited to a four-week Creative Artist residency at the Bellagio Center in Italy to complete her poetry collection Incarnadine. Supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bellagio Center overlooks Lake Como in northern Italy. Typically no more than 12 scholars from diverse disciplines around the world are invited to the Center at any one time. This competitive residency program provides a “serene setting conducive to focused, goal-oriented work, and the unparalleled opportunity to establish new connections with fellow residents, across a stimulating array of disciplines and geographies.” In addition to time and a beautiful space in which to work, collegial interaction with other residents is encouraged. (March 2011)