Rajesh Parameswaran is the author of the short story collection I Am an Executioner: Love Stories (Knopf), one of the Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction for 2012 and one of the Scottish Book Trust's 15 Great Short Story Collections from the 21st Century So Far. His work has appeared in The Best American Magazine Writing, Fiction, Granta, McSweeney’s, and Zoetrope: All-Story. He has been awarded a fellowship from the NEA, and residencies at: the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center; the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard; the MacDowell; the Ucross Foundation; the Santa Maddalena Foundation; the Dora Maar House; and Yaddo. His story “The Strange Career of Dr. Raju Gopalarajan” was one of three that earned McSweeney’s the National Magazine Award for fiction.
Raj Parameswaran
Studios
Irving Fine
Raj Parameswaran worked in the Irving Fine studio.
Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…