Emily Jane Shelton's fiction has appeared in Chicago Review, Kenyon Review, Quarterly West, and Seneca Review, among other journals, and she has also been a resident at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Jentel, and Yaddo. Before her arrival at MacDowell, Emily Shelton had recently completed her first novel, Memphis, based on the "West Memphis Three" murder case, and was then currently at work on her second novel, Alice Christie, which takes place in Detroit in both 1912 and the present day.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Emily Jane Shelton
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Cambridge, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2004, 2016
Studios
Schelling
Emily Jane Shelton worked in the Schelling studio.
Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…