Discipline: Literature

Janice Eidus

Discipline: Literature
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1981, 1981, 1996

Janice Eidus is an American writer living in New York City. Her novels include The War of the Rosens, The Last Jewish Virgin, and Urban Bliss. She's twice won the O. Henry Prize for Fiction, as well as a Pushcart Prize. Other awards include The Acker Award for Achievement, an Independent Book Award, and The Firecracker Award given by the Community of Literary Magazines & Presses. She's taught at such universities as Carlow University, the University of New Orleans, and The New School, and at writers' conferences all over the world, including The Writers Workshop of San Miguel de Allende in Mexico, Sanibel Island Writers Conference, and the Chautauqua Writers Conference. She is also a private writing coach. Her fiction and nonfiction appear in such anthologies as How Does That Make You Feel: True Confessions From Both Sides of the Therapy Couch, The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories, 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11, Common Boundary: An Anthology About Immigration and International Adoption, Dirt: Writers on the Quirks, Habits, and Passions of Keeping House, and Desire: Women Write About Wanting. Her essays often appear in Purpleclover.com.

Studios

Irving Fine

Janice Eidus 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…

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