John Pipkin’s first novel, Woodsburner, was published to national acclaim by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday in April 2009. Woodsburner won the New York Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Massachusetts Center for the Book Novel Prize, and the Texas Institute of Letters Stephen Turner Prize for First Novel. Pipkin was a Harry Ransom Research Fellow in the summer of 2010, and he held the Dobie Paisano Fellowship in the spring of 2011, where he worked on his second novel, The Blind Astronomer’s Daughter, which will be published by Bloomsbury in October 2016. Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, he attended Washington and Lee University and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and received his Ph.D. in British Literature from Rice University in 1997. He has taught writing and literature at Saint Louis University and Boston University, and he is currently the Writer-in-Residence at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. He also teaches in the low-residency M.F.A. program at Spalding University, in Louisville, Kentucky, and at the University of Texas at Austin. He lives in Austin with his wife and son.
John Pipkin
Studios
Wood
John Pipkin worked in the Wood studio.
Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…