Benjamin Schaefer is a writer and editor from upstate New York. He studied literature and creative writing at Bard College and the M.F.A. program at the University of Arizona. His fiction has appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Electric Literature, and Guernica, and he is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the MacDowell, the Millay Colony for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He serves as the senior prose editor at Fairy Tale Review. While at MacDowell, Benjamin completed the first chapter of a novel.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Benjamin Schaefer
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Rochester, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2018
More:
www.benschaefer.com
Studios
MacDowell
Benjamin Schaefer worked in the MacDowell studio.
Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…