Discipline: Literature – fiction

Ashley Davidson

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Flagstaff, AZ
MacDowell Fellowships: 2019

Ashley Davidson has received scholarships and grants from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Arizona Commission on the Arts.

While at MacDowell she completed a final round of edits on the manuscript of her debut novel, Damnation Spring about a family of loggers in the redwood forest near the mouth of the Klamath River.

Studios

Schelling

Ashley Davidson worked in the Schelling studio.

Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…

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