Discipline: Literature – fiction

Nalini Jones

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Norwalk, CT
MacDowell Fellowships: 2001

Nalini Jones is the author of What You Call Winter, a story collection set in a Catholic neighborhood of Mumbai. In 2012, she won a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship for work on a forthcoming novel, and in 2013, Pushcart and O. Henry prizes for short fiction. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, One Story, Ontario Review, Elle India, and Ninth Letter. Her stories have also appeared in The Common, Vogue India, and various anthologies including AIDS Sutra and Freud’s Blind Spot. Recent teaching appointments have been in Columbia University’s M.F.A. program and Yale University. Her credits in music production include associate producer of the Newport Folk Festival 2004-09, line producer of televised tribute “From the Big Apple to the Big Easy” at Madison Square Garden in 2005, and backstage manager at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, 1995-present, among others.

Studios

Calderwood

Nalini Jones worked in the Calderwood studio.

In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Burr-McCallum Architects of Williamstown, MA, provided the award-winning design in 1999; and the construction of the handsome studio was completed in time for its first artist to arrive early in 2000. With a series of double-hung casement…

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