Discipline: Literature – fiction

Suzanne Rivecca

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: San Francisco, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2008, 2010

While at MacDowell, Suzanne Rivecca worked on a novel, The Habitants, about Walt Whitman in New Orleans. Her debut book of short stories, Death is Not an Option, was released in July 2010 from W. W. Norton & Company. She is the recipient of a 2010 NEA grant in prose.

Studios

Calderwood

Suzanne Rivecca 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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