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Hemingway Foundation Announces 2013-14 Writer in Residence

Award-winning poet, playwright and novelist Susan Hahn has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Illinois Arts Council, and is a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize.

From the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park:

The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park is proud to announce its 2013-2014 Writer in Residence, Susan Hahn.

An award-winning poet, playwright and novelist, Hahn has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Illinois Arts Council, and is a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize. She has published a number of poetry collections and was awarded Poetry's George Kent Prize. Her plays have been read at Victory Gardens and Writers' Theater, and her first novel was published in 2012. 

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She is the former editor of the literary journal TriQuarterly. Her poetry books, Mother In Summer and Holiday, were named among the Best Books of The Year by the Chicago Tribune.

Hahn will work in the attic office at the Hemingway Birthplace Home, 339 N. Oak Park Avenue. The office has been renovated by Thomasville Furniture with items from its Hemingway Collection. 

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More than 50 writers and artists applied for the opportunity to spend a year working in Hemingway's attic. The applications were reviewed and the writer chosen by a committee of the Foundation board.  


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