Discipline: Literature

Sarah Glasscock

Discipline: Literature
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1984

Sarah Glasscock is an American writer of fiction and education works. She is a fifth-generation Texan living in Austin, Texas. Glasscock completed her M.A. in Creative Writing at New York University, and has been the recipient of several writing fellowships. Her short stories have appeared in numerous journals; Random House published her first novel, Anna L.M.N.O. (1988).

Sarah Jean Glasscock was born in El Paso, Texas, and raised in Alpine, Texas. She is the daughter of Jean Epperson Glasscock and James Glasscock, who owned and operated the Alpine Avalanche from 1954 to 1974. Glasscock is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. She worked in New York publishing before returning to Austin, Texas, in the 1990s.

Studios

Heyward

Sarah Glasscock worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…

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