Discipline: Literature – fiction

Sarah Deming

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2014

Sarah Deming writes about mythology, sex, alcohol, and boxing. She is a Golden Gloves champion who now coaches youth boxers in Brooklyn. She won a 2013 Pushcart Prize for her essay, "Skydive," about donating a kidney to her mother.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Sarah Deming worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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