Discipline: Literature

Rebecca Stowe

Discipline: Literature
Region: Craryville, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1991

Rebecca Stowe is the author of three novels: Not the End of the World ("An extraordinary achievement..." Joan Didion); The Shadow of Desire ("Memorable and powerful…" Fay Weldon); and One Good Thing ("Surreal, smashing stuff..." London Mirror). Her short stories, essays, and book reviews have appeared in The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Florida Review, Cottonwood, Modern Maturity, Country Living, Chronogram, Our Town, and other publications. She has received grants and fellowships from The New York Foundation for the Arts, the Barbara Demming Memorial Fund, MacDowell, Yaddo, VCCA, the Milay Colony for the Arts, and Ragdale. She is a member of the Authors Guild and PEN. She has taught writing at the University of Oregon and the 92nd St. Y in New York City. She also works with private students.

Studios

Veltin

Rebecca Stowe worked in the Veltin studio.

Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…

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