Discipline: Literature

Adrianne Harun

Discipline: Literature
Region: Port Townsend, WA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1997

Adrianne Harun writes short fiction, essays, and book reviews that have been published in numerous magazines and journals, including Story, the Chicago Tribune, Narrative Magazine, Cincinnati Review, Ontario Review, The Sun, Willow Springs, and Colorado Review. Her first short story collection, The King of Limbo (Houghton Mifflin) was a Sewanee Writing Series selection and a Washington State Book Award finalist. Stories from her upcoming collection, Catch, Release, have been noted as "Distinguished Stories" in both Best American Mystery Stories (2003) and Best American Short Stories (2009). Her work has also been included in several anthologies, including "The Darger Episodes," inspired by the work of outsider artist Henry Darger, which appeared in Looking Together: Northwest Writers on Art, published by the University of Washington Press in conjunction with the Frye Art Museum. Her first novel, A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain, published by Viking Penguin, won the 2015 Pinckley Prize for Crime Fiction, was shortlisted for the Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Association Award, and has been named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. A longtime resident of Port Townsend, Washington, Adrianne has taught as a core faculty member of the Rainier Writing Workshops, an M.F.A. program at Pacific Lutheran University, as well as a faculty member at the Sewanee School of Letters at the University of the South.

Studios

New Hampshire

Adrianne Harun worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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