Discipline: Literature – fiction

Jessica Anthony

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Portland, ME
MacDowell Fellowships: 2006
More: www.thejessicaanthony.com
Anthony’s short stories can be found in Best New American Voices, Best American Nonrequired Reading, New American Writing, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, MacDowell, the Millay Colony, the Ucross Foundation, and the Maine Arts Commission. Her books have been published in a dozen countries and reviewed in The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and The San Francisco Chronicle. She served as one of four Bridge Guard artists in Sturovo, Slovakia in 2015.

Studios

Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)

Jessica Anthony worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.

Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…

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