Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer is author of the novel, Amalie in Orbit, and the story collection, Goodbye, Evil Eye, based on Sephardic family life. The latter was a finalist in the National Jewish Book Awards. Her short fiction has been published in The Antioch Review, Arts & Letters, Kansas Quarterly, New Letter, Carolina Quarterly, North American Review, Persimmon Tree, Lilith, and more. They have also been broadcast on NPR and read at Symphony Space. Kirchheimer is also author of several non-fiction works appearing in The Yale Journal for the Humanities in Medicine, Sephardic Horizons, and Perceptive Travel, as well as coauthor of a nonfiction book, We Were So Beloved: Autobiography of a German Jewish Community. She was a French-English translator, magazine editor, recorded folksinger, and editor for academic and nonprofit organizations.
Gloria Kirchheimer
Studios
Veltin
Gloria Kirchheimer worked in the Veltin studio.
Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…