Yuko Sakata worked on her first novel and a few short stories. She writes both in English and in Japanese, and her work has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Yuko Sakata Burtless
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Jackson Heights, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2009
Studios
Veltin
Yuko Sakata Burtless worked in the Veltin studio.
Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…