Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Jacob Newberry

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Tallahassee, FL
MacDowell Fellowships: 2013

Jacob Newberry is from the Mississippi coast but currently lives in Tallahassee, FL He worked on a memoir and a poetry manuscript. Winner of the 2012 Ploughshares Emerging Writers' Contest in Nonfiction, he also spent a year in Jerusalem on a Fulbright Fellowship for poetry. Most importantly, at the time of his residency, he had completed 4/7ths of his life goal of jogging on every continent. (Antarctica's going to be tricky, he admits.)

Studios

MacDowell

Jacob Newberry worked in the MacDowell studio.

Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…

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