Discipline: Literature

B.G. Firmani

Discipline: Literature
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1993, 1998

B. G. Firmani is a graduate of Barnard College and holds an M.F.A. from Brown. Her short fiction has been published in BOMB Magazine, The Kenyon Review, and Bellevue Literary Review. She is the author of Times a Thief. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship and has been a resident at MacDowell and Yaddo.

Studios

Star

B.G. Firmani worked in the Star studio.

Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…

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