Discipline: Literature

Judith Cohen

Discipline: Literature
Region: Allston, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1979

Judith Beth Cohen’s novel, Seasons, was published by The Permanent Press of Sag Harbor, New York in 1984. Excerpts appeared first in Ted Solotaroff's quarterly, The New American Review. Her stories have appeared in numerous magazines including The North American Review, New Letters, High Plains Literary Review, Sojourner, and others. Her reviews and articles have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, The Dallas-Times Herald, The Boston Herald, The Boston Review, and The Women's Review of Books. She has held fellowships at Hawthornden Castle International Writer's Retreat in Scotland, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Yaddo, and MacDowell, among others. She has received grants from the Vermont Arts Council, the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation, and was a Fulbright scholar in 1987. Cohen is currently Professor Emerita at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA.

Studios

Schelling

Judith Cohen worked in the Schelling studio.

Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…

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