Discipline: Literature – fiction

Anna Solomon

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Providence, RI
MacDowell Fellowships: 2007, 2010

Anna Solomon is the author of a novel, The Little Bride, and co-editor, with Eleanor Henderson, of Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today's Best Women Writers. Her short stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in One Story, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, The Georgia Review, The New York Times Magazine, MORE, Poets & Writers, and elsewhere. Her short story, "The Lobster Mafia Story," was selected as Boston's 2012 One City One Story read. The recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, The Missouri Review Editor’s Prize, and fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, and Bread Loaf, Anna holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has taught writing at Grub Street, Manhattanville College, the Sackett Street Writers Workshop, and elsewhere, and currently teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program at Brown University.

Studios

Calderwood

Anna Solomon worked in the Calderwood studio.

In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Burr-McCallum Architects of Williamstown, MA, provided the award-winning design in 1999; and the construction of the handsome studio was completed in time for its first artist to arrive early in 2000. With a series of double-hung casement…

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