Discipline: Literature

Olive Hershey

Discipline: Literature
Region: Houston, TX
MacDowell Fellowships: 1983, 1986
Olive Hershey Olive Hershey was born in Houston, Texas and attended Connecticut College before moving on to the University of Texas at Austin, receiving a B.A. in 1968, an M.A. in 1970, and her Ph.D. in 1978. She later attended the University of Houston’s creative writing program, receiving an M.A. in 1987. While there, Hershey studied under American novelist Donald Barthelme. She published Face Up, a book of poetry, in 1984 and the novel Truck Dance (originally her University of Houston thesis) in 1984.

Studios

Star

Olive Hershey worked in the Star studio.

Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…

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