Discipline: Literature – fiction

Violet Kupersmith

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Doylestown, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2014

At MacDowell, Violet Kupersmith worked on her first novel, Build Your House Around My Body (Random House, 2021). Her collection of contemporary Vietnamese ghost stories, The Frangipani Hotel, was published in 2014.

Studios

Sorosis

Violet Kupersmith worked in the Sorosis studio.

Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…

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