Discipline: Literature

Mary Beth Caschetta

Discipline: Literature
Region: Northampton, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1999
Mary Beth Caschetta is a writer and the owner of a content strategy and medical writing business. Born in Rochester, NY, she later moved to Northampton, MA, where she was one of the first members of the Writer’s Mill. She is a recipient of the W.K. Rose Fellowship for Emerging Artists, the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award, and the Seattle Review Prize for fiction. Her stories have appeared in Small Spiral Notebook, Mississippi Review, Del Sol Review, and Red Rock Review, Bloom, Thieves Jargon, Ecclectica, and Blithe House Quarterly, among others. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Body & Soul Magazine, and print anthologies published by St. Martin's Press, The Feminist Press, Avon Books, and The Other Press. Her books include Miracle Girls (2014) and Pretend I’m Your Friend (2016).

Studios

Wood

Mary Beth Caschetta 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…

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