Discipline: Literature – fiction

Yvonne Jackson

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Greencastle, IN
MacDowell Fellowships: 1999, 2007

While at MacDowell in 2007, she completed one-third of the first draft of Jesus Jones, a novel that reimagines the gospels.

Studios

MacDowell

Yvonne Jackson worked in the MacDowell studio.

Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…

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