Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Domenica Ruta

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2010
More: www.domenicaruta.com
Domenica Ruta is a fiction writer with stories published in Epoch, The Indiana Review, and the Dalton Anthology of Emerging Austin Writers. She worked on the fourth draft her memoir, The Pretenders, an untitled novel-in-progress, some stories, and God knows what else.

Studios

MacDowell

Domenica Ruta 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…

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