Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Padma Hejmadi

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Colorado Springs, CO
MacDowell Fellowships: 1966, 1967, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1981, 2000
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Padma Hejmadi has published poetry, nonfiction, and two books of collected fiction under the name of Padma Perera. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Parabola, and elsewhere, with essays translated into French by Initiations, Belgium. She is represented in several anthologies of International Literature, Women's Writing, and Salman Rushdie's Mirrorwork: 50 Years of Indian Writing, 1947-1997. As a photographer and visual artist, Padma Hejmadi's work in both fields has been exhibited in solo and group shows in Seattle, California, and Hawaii. It is included in private collections in the U.S., Japan, and New Zealand. In addition, it has been reproduced on book covers for volumes of poetry as well as her own book of nonfiction. In 2001 she was made co-director of The New Pacific Studio, California and New Zealand, fostering exchange programs between artists of the Pacific Rim.

Studios

Mixter

Padma Hejmadi worked in the Mixter studio.

Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…

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