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Zehra Nabi is a writer from Karachi, Pakistan. She holds an M.F.A. in fiction from Johns Hopkins and teaches in the Liberal Arts Program at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture. Her writing has appeared in The Georgia Review, Subtropics, Tin House (online), and elsewhere.
At MacDowell, Nabi spent her time working on what she hopes will be her debut novel.
Zehra Nabi worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.
In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…