Discipline: Literature – fiction

Jackie Thomas-Kennedy

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Berkeley, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2011, 2019

Jackie Thomas-Kennedy held a 2014-2016 Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. Her story "Eugenie is Anointed" was recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts and her work has appeared in Electric Literature, LennyLetter, Narrative, GlimmerTrain, Georgetown Review, SLICE, StoryQuarterly, Madison Review, Canteen, The Millions, Harvard Review, L Magazine, Day One, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Ucross Foundation, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, and the Saltonstall Foundation. She won the 2019 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize. She holds an M.F.A. in fiction from Columbia University School of the Arts. At MacDowell in 2019, she worked on a collection of linked stories, several of which have appeared or are forthcoming in Narrative, Bennington Review, and elsewhere. Most recently, her story "Sister Joan" was published in Issue 7 of the Bennington Review.

Studios

Putnam

Jackie Thomas-Kennedy worked in the Putnam studio.

The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…

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