Debora Kuan is the author of XING, her debut poetry collection (Saturnalia Books, 2011). A two-time Pushcart nominee, she has been awarded a Fulbright creative writing fellowship (Taiwan), University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop Graduate Merit Fellowship, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference work-study scholarship, and residencies at Yaddo, The Macdowell Colony, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. Her short fiction and poems have appeared in American Letters and Commentary, The Awl, The Baffler, Boston Review, Brooklyn Rail, Fence, Gigantic, Glittermob, HTMLGiant, Hyperallergic, Indiana Review, New American Writing, The Iowa Review, The L Magazine, Rumpus, and other journals. She has also written about contemporary art, books, and film for Artforum, Art in America, Idiom, Modern Painters, and Paper Monument. A former fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center Writers’ Institute in fiction and nonfiction, she received an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a B.A. from Princeton University. She is currently a director of English Language Arts assessment at the College Board and a senior editor at Brooklyn Arts Press.
Debora Kuan
Studios
Delta Omicron
Debora Kuan worked in the Delta Omicron studio.
Delta Omicron Studio was funded by members of the international musical fraternity in 1927. The building design is somewhat medieval in character, with an unusual cedar shingle pattern, a steeply pitched slate roof, intersecting gables, and small windows. After a 2016 deep-energy renovation, Delta Omicron is now one of the most energy efficient studio on the property…