Jane Satterfield | Red Room Writer Profile

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Jane Satterfield, the recipient of a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, is the author of two poetry collections: Assignation at Vanishing Point (Elixir, 2003) and Shepherdess with an Automatic (WWPH, 2000).
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Virginia Woolf, Jamaica Kincaid, Rebecca Solnit, Michael Ondaatje, Elizabeth Spires, James Baldwin, Wallace Stevens, Sara Suleri, Seamus Heaney, Sujata Bhatt, Moniza Alvi, Michael Donaghy, and many talented singer/songwriters including Aimee Mann, PJ Harvey, Sinead O'Connor, Sam Phillips, Morrissey, Shane McGowan, Robyn Hitchcock, Nick Drake, Colin Meloy, and Elliott Smith

Jane Eyre, The English Patient, Mrs. Dalloway, Wuthering Heights, The Widening Spell of the Leaves

The History of Last Night's Dream (Kamenetz), Girls in Peril (Boren), The Importance of Music to Girls (Greenlaw), A Witch's Dictionary (Kennedy), The Wave-Maker (Spires)

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Empire Biscuits
February 12, 2010
- Empire BiscuitsWinter’s dark and snow drives domesticity. So here it is again: Empire Biscuit time. I can’t think of Empire Biscuits without thinking first of the recipe--spare directions (what is a “quick”oven?) written in a firm hand on a tattered piece of notepaper. Mrs. Clellan, one of my mother’s Scottish neighbors on Corby’s Deene Close, handed it over to my mum sometime ...
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Women Poets Write About Aids Reading
April 16, 2009
- Yesterday I travelled across rainy Maryland to join six other readers gathered by editors Katherine Smith and Julie Wakeman-Linn (literary talents in their own right). Co-sponsored by the Potomac Review and Women’s Studies Program at Montgomery College, “Women Poets Write about AIDS,” featured a reading/discussion followed by writing workshops centering on social issues. I’d read ...
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Hosting the Sidhe
October 31, 2008
- October is leaves—leaves swirling against shut doors and windows, swirling around the ankles as you walk. October is wind and elegy—that breath of song that memorializes. It’s the perfect time for reading—and re-reading Yeats, a tradition I’ve tried to keep from one October years ago. At the Iowa Writers Workshop for a mere two months, I settled busily into routines of ...
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