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Nusrat Hossain is currently revising her first novel about a Muslim American family, highlighting the experiences of a young hijabi woman and her mother.
While at MacDowell, she continued developing a collection of short stories with primarily female Muslim-Bangladeshi-American characters at different stages of life. Both projects explore the complexities of hyper-hyphenated identities and the question of how to harmonize cultural and self-expectations.
Nusrat Hossain worked in the Schelling studio.
Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…