Lara Vapnyar came to the US from Russia in 1994. She is the author of the acclaimed novels, Memoirs of a Muse, The Scent of Pine, Still Here, and Divide Me By Zero, as well as two collections of short stories, There Are Jews in My House and Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love. She is a recipient of the Guggenheim fellowship, and the Goldberg Prize for Jewish fiction. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s, and The New Republic.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Lara Vapnyar
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2009, 2015, 2017
Studios
Phi Beta
Lara Vapnyar worked in the Phi Beta studio.
Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…