Vanessa Veselka worked on her second novel, The Fort of Young Saplings, published in 2014. Her first novel, Zazen, won the 2012 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Vanessa Veselka
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Portland, OR
MacDowell Fellowships: 2013
Studios
Mansfield
Vanessa Veselka worked in the Mansfield studio.
The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…