Rebecca Chace is the author of: Leaving Rock Harbor (novel); Capture the Flag (novel); Chautauqua Summer (Memoir). Plays: Colette; The Awakening (adaptation of novel by Kate Chopin). Chace adapted her novel, Capture the Flag, for the screen with director Lisanne Skyler. It received the Showtime Tony Cox Screenwriting Award (Short Film) at Nantucket Film Festival, 2010. Her first novel for children, June Sparrow and the Million Dollar Penny, will be published by Balzer and Bray imprint of Harper Collins, Spring 2017. She has written for the New York Times Magazine, New York Times Sunday Book Review, the Huffington Post, NPR’s All Things Considered and other publications. She is director of creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University and 2014 recipient of the Grace Paley Fiction Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. She is a 2015-2016 member of the Wertheim Study at the NYPL; 2016 Writing Fellow at Dora Maar House MFAH, and lives in Brooklyn.
Rebecca Chace
Studios
MacDowell
Rebecca Chace worked in the MacDowell studio.
Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…