Discipline: Literature – fiction

Jill Widner

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Yakima, WA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2016

Jill Widner worked towards finishing her novel, A Green Raft on a Muddy Swell, which observes a subculture of expatriate children growing up in Sumatra, Indonesia, where her father worked as a petroleum engineer in the 1960s.

Studios

Heyward

Jill Widner worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…

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