Discipline: Literature

Fred Haefele

Discipline: Literature
Region: Missoula, MT
MacDowell Fellowships: 1982, 1984
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Fred Haefele is an American writer. His essays have appeared in Outside, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, American Heritage, Salon.com, Montana Magazine, and others. He has received literary fellowships from The Fine Arts Work Center, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Stanford University. As an ISA Certified arborist, for 10 years he worked the urban forest in Missoula, Montana. Fred is the author of the award-winning motorcycle memoir Rebuilding the Indian (Riverhead Books, 1998, Bison Books, 2005) and Extremophilia (Bangtail Press, 2012). He has been privileged to teach creative writing at the University of Montana and Stanford University, where he held a three-year Richard Foster Jones Lectureship.

Studios

Schelling

Fred Haefele 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…

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