Ghita Schwarz grew up in a family of postwar Jewish refugees and attended Harvard College and Columbia Law School. A former mental health worker and legal services attorney, she is now a civil rights litigator specializing in immigrants' rights. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Ploughshares, The Believer and The San Francisco Bay Guardian.
Discipline:
Literature
Ghita Schwarz
Discipline:
Literature
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1998, 1999
Studios
Irving Fine
Ghita Schwarz worked in the Irving Fine studio.
Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…