Discipline: Literature – fiction

Mary Waters

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Los Angeles, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1999
More: www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Mary-Yukari-Waters/18858269
Mary Yukari Waters is half Japanese and half Irish-American. The recipient of an O. Henry award, a Pushcart Prize, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, she has been published in The Best American Short Stories 2002 and 2003, The Pushcart Book of Short Stories: The Best Stories from a Quarter-Century of the Pushcart Prize, and Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope 2 anthology. She earned her M.F.A. from the University of California, Irvine, and lives in Los Angeles.

Studios

Phi Beta

Mary Waters 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…

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