Discipline: Literature – fiction

Dominica Phetteplace

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Berkeley, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2016

Dominica Phetteplace is a math and computer science tutor living in Berkeley, CA. While at MacDowell she worked on a science fiction novel set in near-future San Francisco.

Studios

MacDowell

Dominica Phetteplace 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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