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.
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…