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Discipline:Literature – fiction
Zena Collier
Discipline:Literature – fiction
Region:Rochester, NY
MacDowell Fellowships:1990, 1993, 2000
Zena Collier is a short story and young adult fiction writer who also writes as Jane Collier and Zena Shumsky. Collier was born in 1926 in London and studied at the Teacher Writers Workshop at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York, where she later taught and lectured. Over the course of her career, Collier was a resident artist at MacDowell, Yaddo, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Collier is best-known for her novels A Cooler Climate (1990) and Ghost Note (1992). She has also regularly contributed short stories and essays to journals and magazines.
Studios
Sprague-Smith
Zena Collier 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…
