Discipline: Literature – fiction

Roma Maffia

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Los Angeles, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2012

Roma Maffia is an actress. She worked on her first novel, And That's How It Go.

It is a story that takes place in 1968 in Spanish Harlem, the story of a 7 year old boy, Daryl and his 11 year old sister Ray. They meet their father who they believed was a dead Viet Nam war hero at the burial of their mother and the story follows the choices they make when their world turns upside down. Roma continues hard at work.

Studios

Calderwood

Roma Maffia worked in the Calderwood studio.

In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Burr-McCallum Architects of Williamstown, MA, provided the award-winning design in 1999; and the construction of the handsome studio was completed in time for its first artist to arrive early in 2000. With a series of double-hung casement…

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