Discipline: Literature

Lucia Nevai

Discipline: Literature
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1986
Lucia Nevai is an American novelist and short story writer, and native of Des Moines, Iowa. Her novel Salvation was published in 2008 by Tin House Books. Nevai's debut novel Seriously was published in 2004 by Little, Brown. Her short stories have appeared in Tin House, Iowa Review, Zoetrope All-Story, The New Yorker, Glimmer Train, and other literary magazines. Her first collection, Star Game, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. Her second collection, Normal, was published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Lucia Nevai worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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