Discipline: Literature – fiction

Roberta Bernstein

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2000, 2003

Roberta Bernstein worked on her first novel Why Baby (working title) while at MacDowell in 2000. In 2003, she worked on I Was Candy.

Studios

Star

Roberta Bernstein 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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