Aurvi Sharma is working on a series of essays about her itinerant childhood in the North Indian hinterlands — moving with her father's job as a waterworks engineer — days rife with drying rivers, sewage stink, chlorine. After 11 cities, she now lives in Washington Heights in New York.
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Aurvi Sharma
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2016
More:
www.aurvi.com
Studios
Sprague-Smith
Aurvi Sharma worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.
In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…