Discipline: Literature – fiction

Jaime deBlanc-Knowles

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Austin, TX
MacDowell Fellowships: 2013

Jaime deBlanc-Knowles grew up in New Zealand, Australia, and an assortment of American cities. A graduate of the M.A. program at the University of Texas at Austin, she is currently at work on a collection of short stories set in New Zealand and Australia, as well as a novel. She is the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship and a Lighthouse Works Fellowship. Her short fiction has been published in Post Road and Meridian.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Jaime deBlanc-Knowles worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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