Jessica Francis Kane is worked on her second novel. Her first, The Report, published by Graywolf in 2010, was excerpted in the Virginia Quarterly Review. Her debut story collection, Bending Heaven, was published in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Jessica Francis Kane
Studios
MacDowell
Jessica Francis Kane 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…