Discipline: Literature – fiction

Aimee Phan

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Berkeley, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2005

Aimee Phan is the author of the novel The Reeducation of Cherry Truong and the story collection We Should Never Meet, both published by St. Martin's Press. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, Salon and The Rumpus, among others. Her fellowships and residencies include the National Endowment of the Arts, Barbara Deming Memorial/ Money for Women Fund, Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, MacDowell, and Hedgebrook. She currently teaches writing and literature at California College of the Arts in Oakland and San Francisco. She lives in Berkeley with her poet husband and two young children.

Studios

Phi Beta

Aimee Phan worked in the Phi Beta studio.

Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…

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