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Author and oral historian Yvonne McBride is an alum of the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA), a Flight School Fellow, and a recipient of the Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh grant from The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments.
At MacDowell, McBride worked on her debut novel, tentatively titled, Cozy Lee Luke at the Crossroads of the World, a story that chronicles Cozy Luke's life in Pittsburgh's Hill District during the jazz era.
Cozy Lee Luke at the Crossroads of the World (Novel-in-progress)
Yvonne McBride worked in the Delta Omicron studio.
Delta Omicron Studio was funded by members of the international musical fraternity in 1927. The building design is somewhat medieval in character, with an unusual cedar shingle pattern, a steeply pitched slate roof, intersecting gables, and small windows. After a 2016 deep-energy renovation, Delta Omicron is now one of the most energy efficient studio on the property…