While at MacDowell, Melissa Johnson worked on her first novel. She had recently graduated with an M.F.A. from Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Melissa Johnson
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2000
Studios
Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)
Melissa Johnson worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.
Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…