Mark Coovelis was born and raised in the Bay Area. He studied literature at UC Berkeley and writing at San Francisco State. His stories, which appeared in The City Lights Review, American Voice, Short Story Review, and The Idler (Canada), won the James D. Phelan Award from the San Francisco Foundation and the Rinehart Prize for Fiction from George Mason University. He published a novel, Gloria (Simon and Schuster) in 1994.
Discipline:
Literature
Mark Coovelis
Discipline:
Literature
Region: Cambridge, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1988
Studios
Star
Mark Coovelis worked in the Star studio.
Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…