Discipline: Literature – fiction

Joan Leegant

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Seattle, WA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2012

Joan Leegant worked her second novel, as well as stories that may have made their way into a collection with the possible title "White City." Her first collection, An Hour in Paradise, won the 2004 Winship/PEN New England Book Award.

Studios

Heyward

Joan Leegant 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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