Thanks to the generosity of the late Renate Wood and her husband Bill, their friends, and faculty and alumni who wanted to honor Renate’s years of excellent work as a poet and as a teacher of poetry, the Warren Wilson MFA Program aims to award a Renate Wood Scholarship to an incoming poet each semester. The scholarship is currently $200 each semester for four semesters, and is awarded by the MFA admissions readers to the strongest poetry candidate who qualifies for need-based aid.

About Renate Wood

Renate Wood (1938-2007) was a beloved poet and teacher of creative writing. Her poetry books included Points of Entry, Raised Underground, and The Patience of Ice, and her work appeared widely including in The American Poetry Review, Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review and other journals. She was a graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA program (poetry ’84) and went on to teach creative writing at the Colorado Artists in the Schools Program, the Continuing Education program at the University of Colorado, and the Warren Wilson MFA program.